Quotes from George Eliot
Education is an asset no man can take away.
— George Eliot
No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence.
— George Eliot
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.
— George Eliot
I shall never forget you. I have never forgotten anyone whom I once knew. My life has never been crowded, and seems not likely to be so.
— George Eliot
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
Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery.
— George Eliot
In 1847, a certain Count Leopold Ferri died at Padua, leaving a library entirely composed of works written by women, in various languages, and this library amounted to nearly 32,000 volumes.
— George Eliot
Choice is the strongest principle of growth.
— George Eliot
I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.
— George Eliot
Was never true love loved in vain, For truest love is highest gain.
— George Eliot
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
— George Eliot
What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?
— George Eliot