If all hearts were open and all desires known—as they would be if people showed their souls—how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!
Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), British novelist, poet. published in Florence Emily Hardy, The Later Years of Thomas Hardy, ch. 10, note, Aug. 18, 1908 (1930).
