The stars are a free show; it don’t cost anything to use your eyes

The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee.

There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better.

But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong.

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