“It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old.”
Other George Eliot Quotes
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot 
76% of people like this quote
I like trying to get pregnant. I'm not so sure about childbirth.
George Eliot
71% of people like this quote
The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.
George Eliot
68% of people like this quote
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities.
George Eliot
62% of people like this quote