An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.
George Eliot Quotes
No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
Animals are such agreeable friends. They ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
If Darwin’s theory should be true, it will not degrade man; it will simply raise the whole animal world into dignity, leaving man as far in advance as he is at present.
Breed is stronger than pasture.
We cannot reform our forefathers.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
