George EliotA collection of 63 posts

Wisdom

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not f...

Wisdom

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Truth

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Truth

Falsehood is easy truth so difficult.

Travel

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

Time

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time or rather we who read it are no...

Strength

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern ...

Smile

Wear a smile and have friends wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Science

Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake...

Power

The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.