The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
George EliotAnd when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George EliotIt is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience.
George EliotTo be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.
George Eliot