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

There are two ways of dealing with nonsense in this world. One way is to put nonsense in the right place; as when people put nonsense into nursery rhymes. The other is to put nonsense in the wrong place; as when they put it into educational addresses, psychological criticisms, and complaints against nursery rhymes or other normal amusements of mankind.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

Humility is the luxurious art of reducing ourselves to a point, not to a small thing or a large one, but to a thing with no size at all, so that to it all the cosmic things are what they really are - of immeasurable stature.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself.