Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!

All our ignorance brings us closer to death.

It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel.

Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope.

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