Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls. - E. M. Forster

He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

There is no harm in deceiving society as long as she does not find you out, because it is only when she finds you out that you have harmed her; she is not like a friend or God, who are injured by the mere existence of unfaithfulness.