It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

If the State does not acquire supremacy over [vast private] enterprises, it becomes their puppet, and they become the real State.

Man can be stimulated by hope or driven by fear, but the hope and the fear must be vivid and immediate if they are to be effective without producing weariness.

There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word if a short word will do. So, if you want to make a statement with a great many qualifications, put some of the qualifications in separate sentences. Third: do not let the beginning of your sentence lead the reader to an expectation which is contradicted by the end.

What is best in mathematics deserves not merely to be learnt as a task, but to assimilated as a part of daily thought, and brought again and again before the mind with ever-renewed encouragement.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Righteousness cannot be born until self-righteousness is dead.