And if insight were sufficient, if the inner life were the whole of life, their happiness has been assured. - E. M. Forster

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

from the middle-middle classes, whose highest desire seemed shelter – continuous shelter – not a lair in the darkness to be reached against fear, but shelter everywhere and always, until the existence of earth and sky is forgotten, shelter from poverty and disease and violence and impoliteness; and consequently from joy; God slipped this retribution in.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.