It is never too late to be what you might have been. - George Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."

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

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

"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."

"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."