“ The stage of mental comfort to which they had arrived at this hour was one wherein their souls expanded beyond their skins, and spread their personalities warmly through the room. Thomas Hardy
“ She was not an existence, an experience, a passion, a structure of sensations, to anybody but herself. To all humankind besides Tess was only a passing thought. Even to friends she was no more than a… Thomas Hardy
“ In making even horizontal and clear inspections we colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in. Thomas Hardy
“ If an offense come out of the truth, better is it that the offense come than that the truth be concealed. Thomas Hardy
“ I have been thinking ... that the social moulds civilization fits us into have no more relation to our actual shapes than the conventional shapes of the constellations have to the real star-patterns.… Thomas Hardy
“ He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods… Thomas Hardy
“ A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away. Thomas Hardy
“ Yes quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown. Thomas Hardy
“ You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me. Thomas Hardy
“ To sorrow I bade good morrow, And thought to leave her far away behind; But cheerly, cheerly, She loves me dearly; She is so constant to me, and so kind. I would deceive her, And so leave her, But ah!… Thomas Hardy
“ To be conscious that the end of a dream is approaching, and yet has not absolutely come, is one of the most wearisome as well as the most curious stages along the course between the beginning of a pas… Thomas Hardy
“ Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most veni… Thomas Hardy
“ The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line,… Thomas Hardy
“ The most vigorous expression of a resolution does not always coincide with the greatest vigour of the resolution itself. It is often flung out as a sort of prop to support a decaying conviction which,… Thomas Hardy
“ Sometimes I shrink from your knowing what I have felt for you, and sometimes I am distressed that all of it you will never know. Thomas Hardy
“ It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing. Thomas Hardy
