Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

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

I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.

"Heaven help us," said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another.

It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner.