More quotes by George Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."