George Eliot

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life. ”

Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet. ”

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

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision. ”

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. ”

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. ”

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure. ”

Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. ”

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. ”

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. ”