George Eliot Saws Quotations

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw.

Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest.

I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.