It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.
Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.
Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ― George Eliot, Middlemarch
Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music. ― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.
Keep true. Never be ashamed of doing right. Decide what you think is right and stick to it.
成为你本可能成为的人，永远不嫌晚。
一个真实、充满爱的灵魂对另一个灵魂的影响，是神圣的。
长期坚持后的失败，远比从未努力到足以称为失败更崇高。
只有狭隘的头脑，才无法从多角度看待问题。
我不为花言巧语所惑，行动才见真章。
只有在离别的痛苦中，我们才能看到爱的深度。
世界的进步，部分依赖于那些未被历史记载的行为；你我如今的处境还不至于太糟，有一半要归功于那些默默无闻、忠诚生活，并长眠于无人祭扫的坟墓中的人们。
当我的心中充满音乐时，生活似乎毫不费力地继续着。
动物是如此令人愉快的朋友——它们不问问题，也不妄加批评。
天上永远不会掉下玫瑰来，如果想要更多的玫瑰，必须自己种植。
倘若我们能敏锐地洞察并感知平凡人生的全部，那将如同听见青草生长与松鼠心跳，而沉默背后的轰鸣会让我们窒息而亡。
保持真诚。行正事，无愧于心。认准对的事，坚持到底。