Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society and we can't get out of it if we would.Thomas Hardy
Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be, It exacts a full look at the Worst.Thomas Hardy
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone.Thomas Hardy
It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.Thomas Hardy
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.Thomas Hardy
Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.Thomas Hardy
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.Thomas Hardy
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.Thomas Hardy
There is a good deal too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.Thomas Hardy
