We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

I am actually what my age and my upbringing have made me - a bourgeois who adheres to the British constitution, adheres to it rather than supports it, and the fact that this isn't dignified doesn't worry me.

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.

Chess is a forcing house where the fruits of character can ripen more fully than in life

Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

As long as learning is connected with earning, as long as certain jobs can only be reached through exams, so long must we take the examination system seriously. If another ladder to employment was contrived, much so-called education would disappear, and no one be a penny the stupider.