Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
George EliotThe impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good.
George EliotThere is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail.
George Eliot