Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.Narrator
Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love one another, to bear with one another—it's all very well for clergymen.Helen Schlegel
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.Narrator
One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.Narrator
Bridges are to cross, and the great thing is to cross them. Don't fuss over how they're built.Mrs. Munt
The tragedy of preparedness has scarcely been handled, save by the Greeks. Life is indeed dangerous, but not in the way morality would have us believe. It is indeed unmanageable, but the essence of it is not a battle. It is unmanageable because it is a romance, and its essence is romantic beauty.Narrator
Science explained people, but could not understand them. After long centuries among the bones and muscles it might be advancing to knowledge of the nerves, but this would never give understanding.Narrator
Any share in the world's resources, however small, seemed too much for a woman who could not love.Narrator
It did her so much good to receive, this greeting from the past. Since Mr. Wilcox's death all her friends had deserted her, and at times it seemed as if there were no such things as friends.Ruth Wilcox
It is only that people are far more different than is pretended. All over the world men and women are worrying because they cannot develop as they are supposed to develop.Margaret Schlegel