George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.Collection: Jealousy
Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.Collection: Jealousy
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.Collection: Gardening
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.Collection: Strength
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.Collection: Veterans
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.Collection: Pet
Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.Collection: Knowledge
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.Collection: Peace
Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.Collection: Marriage
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.Collection: Marriage
Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.Collection: Mothers
It is never too late to be what you might have been.Collection: Inspirational
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.Collection: Pet
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.Collection: Death
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.Collection: Travel
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.Collection: Positive
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.Collection: Communication
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.Collection: Future
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.Collection: Brainy
Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.Collection: Death
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.Collection: Inspirational
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.Collection: History
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.Collection: Hope
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.Collection: Work
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.Collection: Wisdom
There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.Collection: Jealousy
I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.Collection: Women
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.Collection: Death
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.Collection: Failure
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.Collection: Love
Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.Collection: Death
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.Collection: Science
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.Collection: Love
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.Collection: Happiness
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.Collection: Truth
Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.Collection: Humor
He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.Collection: Funny
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.Collection: Love
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.Collection: Fear
What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?Collection: Life
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.Collection: Life
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.Collection: Wisdom
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.Collection: Failure
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.Collection: Failure
There are many victories worse than a defeat.Collection: Failure
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.Collection: Smile
Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.Collection: Travel
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.Collection: Dad
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.Collection: History
In every parting there is an image of death.Collection: Death