Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. – George Eliot
Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? – George Eliot
All the learnin my father paid for was a bit o birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. – George Eliot
Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline. – George Eliot
The typical human life seems to be quite unplanned, undirected, unlived, and unsavored. Only those who consciously think about the adventure of living as a matter of making choices among options, which they have found for themselves, ever establish real self-control and live their lives fully. – Karl Albrecht