I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.

And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog.