Animals are such agreeable friends- they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. - George Eliot. View more images...

Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words. - George Eliot. View more images...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. - George Eliot. View more images...

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. - George Eliot. View more images...

What makes life dreary is want of motive. - George Eliot. View more images...

'Tis what I love determines how I love. - George Eliot. View more images...

Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty. - George Eliot . View more images...

What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? - George Eliot. View more images...

Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being. - George Eliot. View more images...

Women know no perfect love:
Loving the strong, they can forsake the strong;
Man clings because the being whom he loves
Is weak and needs him. - George Eliot. View more images...

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence. - George Eliot. View more images...

Friendships begin with liking or gratitude — roots that can be pulled up. - George Eliot. View more images...

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking. - George Eliot. View more images...

I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates. - George Eliot. View more images...

Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face. - George Eliot. View more images...