“It matter so little to the majority of living beings what the minority, that calls itself human, desires or decides.”

“Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.”

“Human beings have their great chance in the novel.”

“I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.”

“At Oxford he learned that the importance of human beings has been vastly over rated by specialists.”

“Man's feet are the measure for distance, his hands are the measure for ownership, his body is the measure for all that is lovable and desirable and strong. Then I went further: it was then that I called to you for the first time, and you would not come.”

“But that some sonatas of Beethoven are written tragic no one can gainsay; yet they can triumph or despair as the player decides, and Lucy had decided that they should triumph.”