More quotes by George Eliot

"The progress of the world can certainly never come at all save by the modified action of the individual beings who compose the world."
"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."
"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?"
"Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."