A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies.