The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.
It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult.
I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.