A half knowledge of another's life mostly does injustice to the life unknown. - Thomas Hardy

Men are too often harsh with women they love or have loved; women with men. And yet these harshnesses are tenderness itself when compared with the universal harshness out of which they grow; the harshness of the position towards the temperament, of the means towards the aims, of to-day towards yesterday, of hereafter towards to-day.

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

and yet to every bad, there is a worse