Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.
Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.
A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into.
A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.
It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety.