We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.

Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

A good joke is the closest thing we have to divine revelation.

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

Aristocracy: government by the badly educated.

Comforts that were rare among our forefathers are now multiplied in factories and handed out wholesale; and indeed, nobody nowadays, so long as he is content to go without air, space, quiet, decency and good manners, need be without anything whatever that he wants; or at least a reasonably cheap imitation of it.