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.

Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.

If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?