The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin.

Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.

Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Teach love, for that is what you are.