Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.

Growing old is an emotion which comes over us at almost any age; I had it myself between the ages of 25 and 30.

Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.

They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.

England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.