More quotes by George Eliot

"Adventure is not outside man; it is within."
"I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
"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."
"There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."