The Mill on the Floss was first published in three volumes in 1860 by William Blackwood and Sons of Edinburgh and London, while the first American edition was published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co, of New York. The work is considered to be Eliot's most autobiographical novel and her long time partner George Lewes reported that the process of writing the conclusion to such a personal tale caused her great emotional distress.

My favorite day at '30 Rock' is Thursday when the show airs. At lunch, we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it's great fun.

Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.

Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep.

When you meet someone, treat them as if they were in serious trouble, and you will be right more than half the time.

and Euripides, faulty though he may be in the general management of his subject, yet is felt to be the most tragic of the poets.

Friends are a comfort in misfortune but one should not make them unhappy by seeking their sympathy...

It may have been a comedy, or it may have been a tragedy. It cost one man his reason, it cost me a blood-letting, and it cost yet another man the penalties of the law. Yet there was certainly an element of comedy. Well, you shall judge for yourselves.

I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.

She was weak and helpless, shaken in mind and nerve. It was to take her at a disadvantage to obtrude love upon her at such a time.

Beauty is nature's coin, must not be hoarded, But must be current, and the good thereof consists in mutual and partaken bliss.

Come, knit hands, and beat the ground,In a light fantastic round.