Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
George EliotA toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.
George EliotOur consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.
George EliotMore helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George EliotA human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge.
George Eliot