The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory. George Eliot Read Quote
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions. George Eliot Read Quote
There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury. George Eliot Read Quote
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things. George Eliot Read Quote
I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out. George Eliot Read Quote
Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking. George Eliot Read Quote
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. George Eliot Read Quote
Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; unbelief, in denying them. George Eliot Read Quote
Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course. George Eliot Read Quote
