All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Quote by George Eliot

Topics: Family Quotes, Fathers Quotes

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without...

Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's...

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

Acting is nothing more or less than playing. The idea is to humanize life.

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do...

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am...

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern...

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in,...