George Eliot
  • A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  • When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

  • No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

  • There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

  • When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.