Sex begins before adolescence, and survives sterility; it is indeed coeval with our lives, although at the mating age its effects are more obvious to Society.
E. M. ForsterThe people I admire most are those who are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do not see life in terms of power.
E. M. ForsterWe are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
E. M. ForsterLucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.
E. M. ForsterBeethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
E. M. ForsterLife's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
E. M. Forster