George Eliot

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in read more

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence.