George Eliot - Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact

George Eliot - Adventure is not outside man; it is within

Benjamin Franklin - It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Gustav Mahler - If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

A.A. Milne - People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Uzo Aduba - I've heard of nothing coming from nothing, but I've never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.

Alexander Pope - Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Helen Rowland- A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.

George Washington - I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery.

George Eliot - Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face.

George Eliot - Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

George Eliot - She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with It as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts.

George Eliot - Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty.

George Eliot - It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Elie Wiesel - Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

Seneca - The comfort of having a friend may be taken away, but not that of having had one.