E. M. Forster

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.

We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's.

Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.

Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.