Thomas Hardy

"A man's silence is wonderful to listen to. "

"A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible. "

"If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst. "

"The fundamental error of their matrimonial union that of having based a permanent contract on a temporary feeling. "

"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes. "

"Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened. "