We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases.

It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found.

One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.