There's more for us to think about in that one little hungry heart than in all the stars of the sky… - Thomas Hardy

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

Or, to state his character as it stood in the scale of public opinion, when his friends and critics were in tantrums, he was considered rather a bad man; when they were pleased, he was rather a good man; when they were neither, he was a man whose moral colour was a kind of pepper-and-salt mixture.

"Yes. I — I can't help liking her — just a little bit! She's not an ungenerous nature; and I am so glad her difficulties have all suddenly ended." She explained how Arabella had been summoned back, and would be enabled to retrieve her position. "I was referring to our old question. What Arabella has been saying to me has made me feel more than ever how hopelessly vulgar an institution legal marriage is — a sort of trap to catch a man — I can't bear to think of it. I wish I hadn't promised to let you put up the banns this morning!"