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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Several millennia ago, the words were written that a man should leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh. It was not our idea; it was God's idea.

It's a terrifying thing to be perhaps 16 or 17 and feel like you are a failure and a has-been.