The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

All great Truth first starts as Blasphemy.

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.