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. – George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. – George Eliot
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot
There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows. – George Eliot