I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.

I once heard someone say morality was method. Do you hold with that? I suppose you wouldn't. You would say that morality was vested in the aim, I expect. Difficult to know what one's aims are, that's the trouble, specially if you're British.

I've got more than one string to my bow, and I thought I'd give this one a twang.

The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism lies, as it always will, not in conformity or even patriotism, but in acts of solitary moral courage. Which, come to think of it, is what we used to admire in our Christian savior

I mean, you can't be less ruthless than the opposition simply because your government's policy is benevolent, can you now?

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.