More quotes by George Eliot

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?"
"But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
"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."