Why should be fruit be held inferior to the flower?

By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.

It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level.

To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked.

...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.