Thomas Hardy

“Fear is the mother of foresight.”

“You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.”

“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”

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

“Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.”

“Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.”

“Some folk want their luck buttered.”

“I am the family face; flesh perishes, I live on.”

“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”