Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.

No one is patriotic about taxes.

Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.