Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. George Eliot Nature
Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. George Eliot Pet
When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity. George Eliot Death
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. George Eliot Dad
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar. George Eliot History