Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth. - E. M. Forster

Ladies sheltering behind men, men sheltering behind servants - the whole system's wrong, and she must challenge it.

Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design… there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own.