1. Alexander Eliot - “So-called art restoration is at least as tricky as brain surgery. Most pictures expire under scalpel and sponge.”

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2. Charles W. Eliot - “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”

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3. Charles W. Eliot - “I recognize but one mental acquisition as a necessary part of the education of a lady or gentlemen, namely, an accurate and refined use of the mother tongue.”

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4. Charles W. Eliot - “In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.”

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5. Charles W. Eliot - “When blocked or defeated in an enterprise I had much at heart, I always turned immediately to another field of work where progress looked possible, biding my time for a chance to resume the obstructed road.”

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6. Charles W. Eliot - “All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties.”

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

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8. George Eliot - “Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.”

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9. George Eliot - “I'm not denying the women are foolish: God Almighty made 'em to match the men.”

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10. George Eliot - “I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.”

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11. George Eliot - “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

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12. George Eliot - “In every parting there is an image of death.”

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13. George Eliot - “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.”

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14. George Eliot - “Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.”

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15. George Eliot - “Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.”

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16. George Eliot - “The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.”

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17. George Eliot - “There is no private life which is not determined by a wider public life.”

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

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19. George Eliot - “Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.”

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

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21. George Eliot - “With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavours and the tinglings of a merited shame.”

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22. George Eliot - “Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.”

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23. George Eliot - “It's them as take advantage that get advantage i' this world.”

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24. George Eliot - “An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.”

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25. George Eliot - “Animals are such agreeable friends — they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”

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