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

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

"Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."

"Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.'I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me."

"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."