Don't trust me, Miss Honeychurch. Though life is very glorious, it is difficult. - E. M. Forster

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

"And again and again fell the word, like the ebb of a dying sea.

"Good-bye.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.