Dialect words—those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Cruelty
Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure
Evil
The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.Thomas Hardy: Far from the Madding Crowd
Love
A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.Thomas Hardy: The Hand of Ethelberta
Patience
Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D'Ubervilles
Peace and Nonviolence
“Peace upon earth!” was said. We sing it, And pay a million priests to bring it. After two thousand years of mass We've got as far as poison-gas. Thomas Hardy
