Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

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.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

But Humanity, in its desire for comfort, had over-reached itself. It had exploited the riches of nature too far. Quietly and complacently, it was sinking into decadence, and progress had come to mean the progress of the Machine.

There is an aristocracy of the sensitive. They represent the true human tradition of permanent victory over cruelty and chaos.

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