George Eliot

Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible.

George Eliot

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

George Eliot

Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it.

George Eliot

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

George Eliot

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

George Eliot

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude – roots that can be pulled up.

George Eliot

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.

George Eliot

Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter.

George Eliot

Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly.

George Eliot

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

George Eliot