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

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

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Teach to the young, men's enduring truths, and let the learned amuse themselves with their passing errors.

There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

Gratitude produced the most purely joyful moments that have been known to man.

A man cannot be wise enough to be a great artist without being wise enough to wish to be a philosopher.