And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she had only been better and known better, her full nature spent itself in deeds which left no great name on the earth, but the effect of her being on those around her was incalculable. For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and on all those Dorotheas who life faithfully their hidden lives and rest in unvisited tombs. Middlemarch

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

The bow always strung ... will not do.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours.