George Meredith

The man or country that fights priestcraft and priests is to my mind striking deeper for freedom than can be struck anywhere.

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

The well of true wit is truth itself.

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

Speech is the small change of silence.

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.