"Daniel Deronda" Quotes

It is one thing to be idle and feel idle, and quite another to be idle and feel active.

Our life is determined for us—and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us and doing what is given us.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us.

That is the lot of all women. They learn to believe in half measures.

Some mortals are privileged to dwell in a world made of stories, and the spiral staircase that connects heaven and earth is made of words.

We are all of us failures—at least, the best of us are.

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

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

It's not our talents that make us dear to other people. It's our vulnerabilities.