E. M. Forster

“It isn't possible to love and part. You will wish that it was. You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.”

“The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”

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

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

“Nonsense and beauty have close connections.”

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