In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

it was only a hopeless fantasy, it passed like an april day, but a look and a word and the dreams they stirred they have stolen my heart away.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer.

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.