That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

We colour and mould according to the wants within us whatever our eyes bring in.

Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there is set down in some old book somebody just like me, and to know that I shall only act her part; making me sad, that's all. The best is not to remember your nature and your past doings have been just like thousands' and thousands', and that your coming life and doings'll be like thousands' and thousands'.

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.

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.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.