“It's never too late to become what you might have been.”

—George Eliot, English female novelist (Mary Ann Evans) who wrote under a male pseudonym.

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

—George Eliot

“To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge.” ”

—Middlemarch, George Eliot

“What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”

—George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“ “If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.”

—George Eliot, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life

“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. ”

—George Eliot

“Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”

—George Eliot 

“No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.”

—George Eliot

“Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.”

—George Eliot

“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories. ”

—George Eliot

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

—George Eliot

“A friend is one to whom one may pour out the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that gentle hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

—George Eliot
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