Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water.

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

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

The end was contained in the beginning.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

[T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity.