The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity.
George EliotTrouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
George EliotThe moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea.
George EliotIt is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority.
George Eliot