...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

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.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

This hobble of being alive is rather serious, don’t you think so?

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

Somebody might have come along that way who would have asked him his trouble, and might have cheered him by saying that his notions were further advanced than those of his grammarian. But nobody did come, because nobody does; and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out of the world.