You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.
George EliotIt was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.
George EliotIt is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings – much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
George EliotDuty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates.
George Eliot