The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.

Most style is not honest enough.

And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.

The more populous the world and the more intricate its structure, the greater must be its fundamental insecurity. A world-structure too elaborately scientific, if once disrupted by war, revolution, natural cataclysm or epidemic, might collapse into a chaos not easily rebuilt.

At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.