"Silas Marner" Quotes

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.

Memory was not so utterly torpid in Silas that it could not be awakened by an appeal to his former self.

In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction.

A man with no more character than a bell-wether.

The sunshine does not love you. It is not thinking of you at all.

The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction.

The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature.

I can do no good without the help of God.

It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, that a woman should be held by love and respect.