Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures.

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.