“Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will.”

About George Eliot

1819 – 1880

English novelist, author of "Middlemarch" and "Daniel Deronda".

“The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.”

“Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.”

“Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them.”

“The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.”

“The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.”

“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

“Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever.”