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
It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because ones own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care. – George Eliot