Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.

— Thomas Hardy

Fear is the mother of foresight.

— Thomas Hardy

Finding this, she was much perplexed as to Hen chard's motives in opening the matter at all; for in such cases we attribute to an enemy a power of consistent action which we never find in ourselves or in our friends...

— Thomas Hardy

Fundamental belief consoled him for superficial irony.

— Thomas Hardy

Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.

— Thomas Hardy

Geoffrey's own heart felt inconveniently large just then.

— Thomas Hardy

Give way to the Better if way to the Better there be It exacts a full look at the Worst.

— Thomas Hardy

Good but not religious-good.

— Thomas Hardy

Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

— Thomas Hardy

He grew away from old associations, and saw something new in life and humanity. Secondarily, he made close acquaintance with phenomena which he had before known but darkly - the seasons in their moods, morning and evening, night and noon, winds in their different tempers, trees, waters and mists, shades and silences, and the voices of inanimate things.

— Thomas Hardy