But what we call our despair is often only the painful eager... - George Eliot

"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"

"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."

"Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."