The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.
There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.
You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.
Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".