George Eliot

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make read more

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.

What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.