David Buenaflor

“Silence has sometimes a remarkable power of showing itself as the disembodied soul of feeling wandering without its carcase, and it is then more impressive than speech.”
― Thomas Hardy

“He had sunk from his modest elevation as pastoral king into the very slime pits of Siddim; but there was left to him a dignified calm he had never before known, and that indifference to fate which, though it often makes a villain of a man, is the basis of his sublimity when it does not. And thus the abasement had been exaltation, and the loss gain.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From The Madding Crowd

“We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by;”
― Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd

“Men thin away to insignificance and oblivion quite as often by not making the most of good spirits when they have them as by lacking good spirits when they are indispensable.”
― Thomas Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd