I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. – George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. – George Eliot
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot
Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change –only to give stability to one beautiful moment. – 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