1840-1928, British Novelist, Poet
The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.
Thomas Hardy – [Heaven]
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.
Thomas Hardy – [Age and Aging]
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
Thomas Hardy – [Surprises]
Well: what we gain by science is, after all, sadness, as the Preacher saith. The more we know of the laws and nature of the Universe the more ghastly a business we perceive it all to be — and the non-necessity of it.
Thomas Hardy – [Science and Scientists]
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