More quotes by George Eliot

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
"What should I do—how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."