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George Eliot
One way of...
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their...
Most of us...
Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach...
The beginning of...
The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Source: Felix Holt,...
In the multitude...
In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the...
Kisses honeyed by...
Kisses honeyed by oblivion.
Source: The Spanish Gypsy, bk. 3, 1868.
-- George...
Only those who...
Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene...
Our passions do...
Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions...
Speech is often...
Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...
I at least...
I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...
An egotist is...
An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.
Source:...
The presence of...
The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to...
But that intimacy...
But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...
Among all forms...
Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.
Source: Middlemarch,...
Would not love...
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
A patronizing disposition...
A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side.
Source: Adam Bede.
--...
In the schoolroom...
In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts...
What loneliness is...
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
Source: Middlemarch, bk. 5, ch. 44,...
Strange, that some...
Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the...
The egoism which...
The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied,...
He was like...
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.
Source: Adam...