Thomas Hardy

"Every material advance has been purchased at the cost of the soul."

"The poetry of a people is the ultimate expression of their civilization."

"Men are more often thoughtless than malicious."

"There is nothing to fear except fear itself becoming real."

"The greatest thing a human soul ever does is to see something."

"What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us."

"A practical philosopher knows when to be silent."

"The tragic power of truth lies in its simplicity."

"One cannot feel truly alive without having felt deeply alive to pain."

"Habit is the deadener of originality."

"In the eyes of the law, a man is innocent; in the eyes of justice, he is guilty."

"The mind of a man is a universe unto itself."

"A poet's business is not to teach but to reveal."

"Peace is found not in the absence of conflict but in the acceptance of it."

"To love is to suffer, and to suffer is to live."

"The world does not reward virtue; it rewards appearance."

"Nature cares nothing for the human heart, only for the human eye."

"A man without illusions is a man without hope."

"The deepest connections are made in silence."

"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."

"Every breath we draw is a breath stolen from death."

"Success is a shallow thing, but goodness is a deep thing."

"To change is to grow; to grow is to accept mortality."

"The heart knows reasons that reason knows not of."

"In grief there is wisdom, though it is a wisdom bought with pain."

"A single moment of understanding can rewrite a lifetime of mistakes."

"The greatest tragedies are born of the greatest loves."

"Fate is a cruel master, but man is a crueler one."

"Education is the most powerful tool, but only if used for good."

"The present is built upon the corpses of the past."