I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you.

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.

The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be.

It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won’t chime.

Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty.