George Eliot, Silas Marner Quotes

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?