
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
Fr. Michael Sliney, LC

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.” George Eliot, Middlemarch

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.” (George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1871 – 1872)


“To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.”

“I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.” (George Eliot, Letter to Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of the artist Edward Burne-Jones, 1875)