E. M. Forster

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. ”

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words. ”

Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake. ”

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer. ”

Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism. ”

So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. ”

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys. ”

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

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship. ”

It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness. ”