The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
From E. M. Forster
Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
Letters have to pass two tests before they can be classed as good: they must express the personality both of the writer and of the recipient.
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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