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 HardyMeasurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.
Thomas HardyEverybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
Thomas HardyI 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.
Thomas Hardy