It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape.

Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

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

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.