To persons standing alone on a hill during a clear midnight such as this, the roll of the world is almost a palpable movement. To enjoy the epic form of that gratification it is necessary to stand on...
If we be doomed to marry, we marry; if we be doomed to remain single we do.
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.
...there was alienation in the standing consciousness that his squareness would not fit the round hole that had been prepared for him.
I am the family face flesh perishes, I live on.
When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.
It takes two or three generations to do what I tried to do in one; and my impulses--affections--vices perhaps they should be called-- were too strong not to hamper a man without advantages; who should...
I had a neat stock of fixed opinions, but they dropped away one by one; and the further I get the less sure I am. I doubt if I have anything more for my present rule of life than following inclination...
Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike.
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.
Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?
Some folk want their luck buttered.
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.
Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done well with a little preparation. She had the passions and instincts which make a model goddess, that is, those which make...
She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.
Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements but as to their subjective experiences.
It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession
I won't be a slave to the past. I'll love where I choose.