He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing

We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them.

It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx.