George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

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.

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.

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find read more

One reason a dog can be such a comfort when you're feeling blue is that he doesn't try to find out why

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.