Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George EliotThe years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day.
George EliotWhat is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
George EliotIt is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.
George Eliot