Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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.