E. M. Forster

It is so difficult--at least, I find it difficult--to understand people who speak the truth.
-- Mr. Beebe in A Room with a View

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
-- Mr. Emerson in A Room with a View

But if we act the truth, the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long-run.
-- in A Room with a View

...there was presented to the girl the complete picture of a cheerless, loveless world in which the young rush to destruction until they learn better--a shamefaced world of precautions and barriers which may avert evil, but which do not seem to bring good, if we may judge from those who have used them most.
-- in A Room with a View