George Eliot
George Eliot
Mary Ann Evans, known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era. She is the author of seven novels, including Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss, Silas Marner, Felix Holt, the Radical, Middlemarch, and Daniel Deronda, most of them set in provincial England and known for their realism and psychological insight...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 November 1819
friends thinking fiber
It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
triumph human-nature creeds
The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions.
men assets
Education is an asset no man can take away.
years expectations vain
Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.
son two hundred
Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.
heaven world
So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.
art children ocean
What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
believe race years
One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that "as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death." Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!
mother children teaching
Primary (the LDS Church's Sunday school for children) is where you go to do with somebody else's mother the things you would do with your own mother if she weren't so busy teaching Primary.
errors form humans
Of all forms of human error, prophesy is the most avoidable.
want
I not only want to be loved, I want to be told that I'm loved.
too-late never-too-late late
It is never too late to become the person you always thought you could be.
coarse subtle impression
Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.
mind well-known conviction
It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium.