George Eliot

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of read more

It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism.

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its read more

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Wear a smile and have friends, wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.