We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.
George Eliot

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
George Eliot

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
George Eliot

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot

It is never too late to be what you might have been.
George Eliot

I like not only to be loved, but to be told I am loved.
George Eliot