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 had nothing in common but the English language, and tried by its help to express what neither of them understood.

Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

My conviction,” says the mystic, “gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it,” and they had agreed that there was something beyond life’s daily grey.