What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Blows are sarcasms turned stupid.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair.

We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us.

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