In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.

in the comparatively short time between my childhood and my daughter's, the business society has ceased urging people to produce and is now exerting its very considerable influence to get them to consume.

Success does not implant bad characteristics in people. It merely steps up the growth rate of the bad characteristics they already had.

The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.

it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.

... giving up alcohol or cigarettes is a lead-pipe cinch compared to the renunciation of complacence by a former (self-appointed) elite.