George Eliot

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. ”

Adventure is not outside man; it is within. ”

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. ”

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past. ”

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world. ”

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world. ”

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment. ”

Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas. ”

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. ”

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down. ”