Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot
Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot
Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing. – George Eliot
Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends? – George Eliot
Laying out grounds… may be considered as a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting…. it is to assist Nature in moving the affections… the affections of those who have the deepest perception of the beauty of Nature… – William Wordsworth, letter to George Beaumont, 1805 October 17th [Author trivia: