Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.

Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.

You cannot grow a beard in a moment of passion.

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

The men of the clique live together because they have the same kind of soul, and their narrowness is a narrowness of spiritual coherence and contentment, like that which exists in hell . . .

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.