... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them.
George EliotFor what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.
George EliotWhen a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his.
George EliotWhether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.
George Eliot