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The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.
George Eliot
George Eliot Quotes
To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.
Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.
Can any man or woman choose duties? No more that they can choose their birthplace, or their father or mother.
It is easy to say how we love new friends and what we think of them but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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