George Eliot Video

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

Choice strengthens all.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?

The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule

Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. They needed to control the people by superstitious fears, and these cannot be aroused without myths and marvels.

Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.

The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

The child is father of the man.

Eminent Victorians.