Alec held out his hand. Maurice took it, and they knew at that moment the greatest triumph ordinary man can win. - E. M. Forster

They described the strange feeling of peace that came over them when they handled the Book of the Machine, the pleasure that it was to repeat certain numerals out of it, however little meaning those numerals conveyed to the outward ear, the ecstasy of touching a button, however unimportant, or of ringing an electric bell, however superfluously.

It is not rubbish! It is the part of people that you do not understand.

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another.