George Eliot

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

George Eliot

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

George Eliot

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

George Eliot

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

Breed is stronger than pasture.

George Eliot

Character is not cut in marble – it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.

George Eliot

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

George Eliot

For time, like money, is measured by our needs.

George Eliot

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

George Eliot

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.

George Eliot