You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

There should be a burnished tablet let into the ground on the spot where some courageous man first ate Stilton cheese, and survived.