All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

Pessimism is reactionary because it makes the very idea of improving the world impossible.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival.

Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity.

The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

All men are enemies. All animals are comrades