There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
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 Eliotthe mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.
George EliotThere are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer.
George Eliot