No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble.

The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.

I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.

Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?