Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. – George Eliot
When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity. – George Eliot
But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves. – George Eliot
Im proof against that word failure. Ive seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. – George Eliot