George Eliot

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. ”

Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest. ”

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. ”

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. ”

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love. ”

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. ”

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism. ”

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ”

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ”

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ”