To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion. – George Eliot
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot
Sympathetic people often dont communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. – George Eliot
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. – George Eliot