George Eliot

"A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts."

"The most irremediable of mistakes is one by which we have injured a person already distressed."

"Dream is the sanctuary of the oppressed."

"Music is not an outward thing; it is a divine and spiritual creation."

"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts."

"In this world there are but two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it."

"We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."

"Resentment is as the badge of all our tribe."

"If art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."

"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."

"Ignorance of the law excuses no one, and the more foolish a man, the more liable he is to mistake."

"We hand folks over to God's mercy and show them none ourselves."

"The sadness lies in the permanence of loss."

"Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms."

"Faithfulness and honesty are what a person is apt to lose when they cease to feel they are observed."

"What is strength without a double share of wisdom?"

"Genius is not always received as genius because it is not always announced by the eccentricity conventionally expected to accompany it."

"History is not the soil of happiness."

"The great turning points of our lives often come from small, seemingly insignificant moments."

"Sorrow comes in great waves, but it rolls over us and though it throws us down again the moments when it leaves us feel like happiness."

"A human being in this little span of time ought to be able to know himself pretty well."

"The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."

"If youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle, and old age a regret."

"Believe nothing because a so-called wise person said it."

"There is a mercy that will not abandon us."

"The most important thing is being useful to others."

"To expect too much is to have a sentimental view of life."

"An idle mind is a poet; an industrious mind is a worker."

"The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."