Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.