Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

She would only point out the salvation that was latent in his own soul, and in the soul of every man. Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer. Only connect, and the beast and the monk, robbed of the isolation that is life to either, will die.

Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

It is the function of the novelist to reveal the hidden life at its source: to tell us more about Queen Victoria than could be known, and thus to produce a character who is not the Queen Victoria of history.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

If Miss Honeychurch ever takes to live as she plays, it will be very exciting--both for us and for her.

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.