Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.

I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

Ford's last Fifth Queen novel is amazing. The whole cycle is a noble conception.

They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.