There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Children begin with detail, and learn up to the general; they begin with the contiguous, and gradually comprehend the universal. The boy… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You overrate my capacity of love. I don't posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“To see persons looking with children's eyes at any ordinary scenery, is a proof that they possess the charming faculty of drawing… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Little towns are like little children in this respect, that they interest most when they are enacting native peculiarities unconscious of beholders.… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
The excessive regard of parents for their children, and their dislike of other people's is, like class feeling, patriotism, save-your-soul-ism, and other… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I think that whenever children be born that are not wanted they should be killed directly, before their souls come to 'em,… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a chill which might permanently injure her, was glad… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
You could sometimes see her twelfth year in her cheeks, or her ninth sparkling from her eyes; and even her fifth would flit over… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It was mid-May time, bringing with it weather not, perhaps, quite so blooming as that assumed to be natural to the month by the… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was court-martialed in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“It being the first time in his life that he had touched female fingers under water, Dick duly registered the sensation as rather a… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“As soon as she could discern the outline of the house, it had all its old effect upon Tess's imagination. Part of her body… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
