Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers.

It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

An earthquake is such fun when it is over.

The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.

The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.

Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round.