George Eliot

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul’s path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time.

George Eliot

There 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

There is nothing that will kill a man so soon as having nobody to find fault with but himself.

George Eliot

Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling.

George Eliot

To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner’s dock is disgrace.

George Eliot

To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair.

George Eliot

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

George Eliot

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

George Eliot

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

George Eliot

We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.

George Eliot