Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

To have lost is less disturbing than to wonder if we may possibly have won; and Eustacia could now, like other people at such a stage, take a standing-point outside herself, observe herself as a disinterested spectator, and think what a sport for Heaven this woman Eustacia was.

Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes