That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow.

Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude.

The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.

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

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.