There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.
George EliotBlessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
George EliotEducation was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
George EliotThere's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
George Eliot... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
George EliotNo one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled.
George Eliot