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

All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes.

Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones.

The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs