Thomas Hardy

"It may have been observed that there is no regular path for getting outof love as there is for getting in. Some people look upon marriage as ashort cut that way, but it has been known to fail."

"When you've made up your mind to marry, take the first respectable body that comes to hand - she's as good as any other; they be all alike in groundwork: 'tis only in the flourishes there's a difference."

"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity?"

"When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines."