"It was a night when sorrow may come to the brightest without causing anygreat sense of incongruity:when,with impressible persons,love becomes solicitousness,hope sinks to misgiving,and faith to hope:when the exercise ofmemory does not stir feelings of regret at opportunities for ambition that havebe"
"This climax of the series had been reached to-night on the aforesaid moor,and for the first time in the season its irregularities were forms without features;suggestive of anything,proclaiming nothing and without more character thanthat of being the limit of something else-the lowest layer of a firm"
"Yet Farmer Boldwood, whether by nature kind, or the reverse to kind, did not exercise kindness here. The rarest offerings of the purest loves are but a self-indulgence, and no generosity at all."
"It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; whth totally different aims the method is the same on both sides."
"Norcombe Hill - not far from lonely Toller-Down - was one of the spots which suggest to a passer-by that he is in the presence of a shape approaching the indestructible as nearly as any to be found on earth. It was a featureless convexity of chalk and soil - an ordinary specimen of those smoothly ou"
"The hill was covered on its northern side by an ancient and decaying plantation of beeches, whose upper verge formed a line over the crest, fringing its arched curve against the sky, like a mane. Tonight these trees sheltered the southern slope from the keenest blasts, which smote the wood and floun"
"Between this half wooded half naked hill, and the vague still horizon that its summit indistinctly commanded, was a mysterious sheet or fathomless shade - the sounds from which suggested that what it concealed bore some reduced resemblance to features here. The thin grasses, more or less coating the"
"The sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse . The North Star was directly in the wind's eye, and since evening the Bear had swung round it outwardly to the east, till he was now at a right angle with the merid"