Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.

How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.

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

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.