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.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.