Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

There is no better test of a man's ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong... A stiff apology is a second insult.

Is there anyone... who will maintain that the Party System could have been created by people particularly fond of truth?

The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist is not allowed to admit into his spotless machine the slightest speck of spiritualism or miracle.

History is not a toboggan slide, but a road to be reconsidered and even retraced

America has a new delicacy, a coarse, rank refinement.

The position we have now reached is this: starting from the State, we try to remedy the failures of all the families, all the nurseries, all the schools, all the workshops, all the secondary institutions that once had some authority of their own. Everything is ultimately brought into the Law Courts. We are trying to stop the leak at the other end.