"Let truth be told - women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. W… - Thomas Hardy

"While there's life there's hope is a conviction not so entirely unknown to the "betrayed" as some amiable theorists would have us believe."

On older trees still than these huge lobes of fungi grew like lungs. Here, as everywhere, the Unfulfilled Intention, which makes life what it is, was as obvious as it could be among the depraved crowds of a city slum. The leaf was deformed....the taper was interrupted..and the ivy slowly strangled to death the promising sapling.

I will help to my last breath the woman I have loved so dearly.

She tried to argue, and tell him that he had mixed in his dull brain two matters, theology and morals, which in the primitive days of mankind had been quite distinct.