It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as a short… - Thomas Hardy

there is no regular path for getting out of love as there is for getting in.

Indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not.

These purblind Doomsters had as readily strown Blisses about my pilgrimage as pain.

Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.