Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever.

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.

The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.