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

- Thomas Hardy

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

- Thomas Hardy

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

- Thomas Hardy

Women are attracted to silent men. They believe they are listening.

- Thomas Hardy

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

- Thomas Hardy

Happiness is but a mere episode in the general drama of pain.

- Thomas Hardy

Some folk want their luck buttered.

- Thomas Hardy

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

- Thomas Hardy

And yet to every bad there is a worse.

- Thomas Hardy