Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good dea… - Thomas Hardy

They had done nothing but wait, and had become poetical. How easy to the smallest building; how impossible to most men.

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.

"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."