In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
Love is just a contact of no refusal.
Glory of the world makes life meaningless. Glory of God fulfills it.
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
My intellect is so limited, Lord, that I can only trust in You to preserve me as I should be.
Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.
A bird that fears turbulence will never know how high it can fly.
So he was queer, E.M. Forster. It wasn't his middle name (that would be 'Morgan'), but it was his orientation, his romping pleasure, his half-secret, his romantic passion. In the long-suppressed novel...