George Eliot

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

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.

No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference.

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

Joseph McCarthy and the John Birch Society launched an anti-Communist crusade that won the support of millions of Americans in the 1950s.