George Eliot

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

George Eliot

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

George Eliot

The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious.

George Eliot

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one’s life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth.

George Eliot

The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world’s resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them.

George Eliot

The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie.

George Eliot

The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world.

George Eliot

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

George Eliot

The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action.

George Eliot

The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.

George Eliot