The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief. – George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot
I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. – George Eliot
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. – George Eliot
I is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life. – Charles Horton Cooley