Each remembered thing in the room was disenchanted, was deadened as an unlit transparency, till her wandering gaze came to the group of miniatures, and there at last she saw something which had gather...
Conceive the condition of the human mind if all propositions whatsoever were self-evident except one, which was to become self-evident at the close of a summer’s day, but in the meantime might be the...
Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.
But we all know the wag’s definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.
At all events, it is certain that if any medicinal man had come to Middlemarch with the reputation of having very definite religious views, of being given to prayer, and of otherwise showing an active...
Apparently the mingled thread in the web of their life was so curiously twisted together that there could be no joy without a sorrow coming close upon it.
Any one observing him would have seen a change in his complexion, in the adjustment of his facial muscles, in the vividness of his glance, which might have made them imagine that every molecule in his...
Anxiety is good for nothing if we can’t turn it into a defense.
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.
And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl’s life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind her, and to whom she is gratefu...
And there is no better reason for preferring this elderberry bush than that it stirs an early memory, that it is no novelty in my life, speaking to me merely through my present sensibilities to form a...
And Casaubon had done a wrong to Dorothea in marrying her. A man was bound to know himself better than that, and if he chose to grow grey crunching bones in a cavern, he had no business to be luring a...
All these crushing questions; but whatever else remained the same, the light had changed, and you cannot find the pearly dawn at noonday. The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose natur...
A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.
His tall figure, the distinguished simplicity of his air—it was a living Vandyke, a cavalier, one of his noble cavalier ancestors, or one to whom her fancy had always likened him, who long of yore had...
Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.
You, and have no little girls’ clothes to mend. Yes, said Maggie. It is with me as I used to think it would be with the poor uneasy white bear I saw at the show. I thought he must have got so stupid w...
There are always people who can't forgive an able man for differing from them.