“The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss (1860)

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.”

“Let whatever appears to be the best be to you an inviolable law.”

“Lord, what fools these mortals be!”

“All that glisters is not gold.”

“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”

“And one man in his time plays many parts.”

“Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.”