Don't go fighting against the Spring. - E. M. Forster

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.

You can gather however that I know I am not a real artist, and at the same time am fearfully serious over my work and willing to sweat at atmosphere if it helps me do what I want. What I want, I think, is the sentimental, but the sentimental reached by no easy beaten track—I cannot explain myself properly, for you must remember (I forget it myself) that though 'clever' I have a small and cloudy brain, and cannot clear it by talking or reading philosophy.

But it is sometimes as difficult to lose one's temper as it is difficult at other times to keep it.