Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

The mind that finds its way to wild places is the poet's; but the mind that never finds its way back is the lunatic's.

Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms him for a series of clear pictures to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.

We ought to be interested in that darkest and most real part of a man in which dwell not the vices that he does not display, but the virtues that he cannot.

It is the mark of our whole modern history that the masses are kept quiet with a fight. They are kept quiet by the fight because it is a sham-fight; thus most of us know by this time that the Party System has been popular only in the sense that a football match is popular.