A modern vegetarian is also a teetotaler, yet there is no obvious connection between consuming vegetables and not consuming fermented vegetables. A drunkard, when lifted laboriously out of the gutter, might well be heard huskily to plead that he had fallen there through excessive devotion to a vegetable diet.

It is ludicrous to suppose that the more sceptical we are the more we see good in everything. It is clear that the more we are certain what good is, the more we shall see good in everything.

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy.

The modern city is ugly not because it is a city but because it is not enough of a city, because it is a jungle, because it is confused and anarchic, and surging with selfish and materialistic energies.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

The Party System was founded on one national notion of fair play. It was the notion that folly and futility should be fairly divided between both sides.