Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. – George Eliot
One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymens miseries is to go and look at their pleasures. – George Eliot
And when a womans will is as strong as the mans who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. – George Eliot
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot