There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot
For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love. – George Eliot
Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles. – George Eliot
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. – George Eliot
That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger. – George Eliot
These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of. – George Eliot
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving! – George Eliot
She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. – George Eliot
We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. – George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot
Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. – George Eliot
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. – George Eliot
What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life — to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. – George Eliot
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. – George Eliot
