It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
Thomas HardyA blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Thomas HardyHe wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.
Thomas Hardy