George Eliot

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

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

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

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive.

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.