We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases.

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.