George Eliot

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with read more

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human read more

But the mother's yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.