I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written.

As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of God; though that be visible, yet it discovers an invisible God and his invisible properties.

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

...We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Then, brothers, it came. Oh, bliss, bliss and heaven. I lay all nagoy to the ceiling, my gulliver on my rookers on the pillow, glazzies closed, rot open in bliss, slooshying the sluice of lovely sounds. Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.