The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books.

Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

We have sunk so low it has become the obligation of every decent, thinking individual to re-state the obvious!

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

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