A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.