It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death.

It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.

Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.

It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid.