The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. - E. M. Forster

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.

My difficulty with working class writers is that they don't make the working class come alive—Leslie Halward is an exception, but as you imply he is not very important. They give me information and they give their comrades gratification, but that's all; gloom, indignation, aspiration in plenty, and plenty of stains on the tablecloth and coal-dust in the mine—but no living beings to experience them.

He had awoken too late for happiness, but not for strength, and could feel an austere joy, as of a warrior who is homeless but stands fully armed.