George Eliot

When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds.

George Eliot

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

George Eliot

Will was not without his intentions to be always generous, but our tongues are little triggers which have usually been pulled before general intentions can be brought to bear.

George Eliot

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.

George Eliot

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot