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- What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Middlemarch
- Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), Romola, 1863
- There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880), The Mill on the Floss, 1860
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life?
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- Our deeds travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
- It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves.
- George Eliot (1819 - 1880)
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