I want to question my belief, so that what is left after I have questioned it, will be even stronger.

You ride well, but you don't kiss nicely at all.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.

That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

It was terribly beautiful to Tess today, for since her eyes last fell upon it she had learnt that the serpent hisses where the sweet birds sing.

It was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave the sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity