The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas HardyClare had studied the curves of those lips so many times that he could reproduce them mentally with ease: and now, as they again confronted him, clothed with colour and life, they sent an aura over his flesh, a breeze through his nerves, which wellnigh produced a qualm; and actually produced, by some mysterious physiological process, a prosaic sneeze.
Thomas HardyThe offhand decision of some commonplace mind high in office at a critical moment influences the course of events for a hundred years.
Thomas Hardy