I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. - George Eliot

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"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."

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

"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."