George Eliot

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

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

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and read more

There are some cases. . . in which the sense of injury breeds --not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but --a hatred of all injury.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were read more

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.