The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.

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.

- the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

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

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?