Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. – George Eliot
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. – George Eliot
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. – George Eliot
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old. – George Eliot
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. – George Eliot
Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn’t do to be run away with. We must keep the reins. – George Eliot
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. – George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal. – George Eliot
You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man’s form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl. – George Eliot
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. – George Eliot
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us. – George Eliot
And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot
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. – George Eliot