Bless thy simplicity, Tess Author: Thomas Hardy Copy Quote More from Thomas Hardy “Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.” “...what I appear, a sick and poor man, is not the worst of me. I am in a chaos …” “It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible with…” “She was in a sound sleep, Jude, dying of anxiety lest she should have caught a …”