George Eliot

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar and what we have been makes us what we are.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Life is measured by the rapidity of change the succession of influences that modify the being.

Blessed is the man who having nothing to say refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

There is no feeling except the extremes of fear and grief that does not find relief in music.

Animals are such agreeable friends they ask no questions pass no criticisms.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions they pass no criticisms.

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

It's them that takes advantage that gets advantage i' this world.

Mr. Craig was not above talking politics occasionally, though he piqued himself rather on a wise insight than on specific information.

But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.