George Eliot

George Eliot was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans an English novelist and poet considered one of the most important writers of the Victorian.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

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

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.