Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness. - Thomas Hardy

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

The time seems near, if it has not actually arrived, when the chastened sublimity of a moor, a sea, or a mountain will be all of nature that is absolutely in keeping with the moods of the more thinking among mankind.