Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present.
George Eliot... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect.
George EliotIt is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable.
George EliotHer little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
George EliotA human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.
George Eliot