A difference of tastes in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George Eliot
I think my life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face: it was so near to me, and her arms were round me, and she sang to me.
George Eliot
Men’s men: gentle or simple, they’re much of a muchness.
George Eliot
The mother’s yearning, that completest type of the life in another life which is the essence of real human love, feels the presence of the cherished child even in the debased, degraded man.
George Eliot