Because our expression is imperfect we need friendship to fill up the imperfections.

If we want to give poor people soap we must set out deliberately to give them luxuries. If we will not make them rich enough to be clean, then empathically we must do what we did with the saints. We must reverence them for being dirty.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease.

Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.

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

The true savage is a slave, and is always talking about what he must do; the true civilised man is a free man, and is always talking about what he may do.