If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, "I'm a free man in here" - he tapped his forehead - "and you're all right.

All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them.

Weakness is strength.

The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Four legs good, two legs bad.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.