Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Give the enemy not only a road for flight, but also a means of defending it.

Thomas Hardy

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

Women are so strange in their influence that they tempt you to misplaced kindness.

The defective can be more than the entire.

The defective can be more than the entire.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Teach me to live, that I may dread The grave as little as my bed. Teach me to die.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

I shall do one thing in this life-one thing certain-this is, love you, and long of you, and keep wanting you till I die.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.

All romances end at marriage.

All romances end at marriage.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.