Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and s… - E. M. Forster

"Straight?" He trembled as he asked this supreme question.
"Scudder? A little too smart to be straight."

London was but a foretaste of this nomadic civilization which is altering human nature so profoundly, and throws upon personal relations a stress greater than they have ever borne before. Under cosmopolitanism, if it comes, we shall receive no help from the earth. Trees and meadows and mountains will only be a spectacle, and the binding force that once exercised on character must be entrusted to Love alone. May Love be equal to the task!

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.