George Eliot

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”

“J It seems to me that we can never give up longing and wishing while we are alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them always.”

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.”

“Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.”

“There are many victories worse than a defeat.”

“and too often leads to a self-estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.”

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”