An aristocracy in a republic is like a chicken whose head has been cut off: it may run about in a lively way, but in fact it is dead.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives

The worst of being a Communist is the parties you may go to are - well - awfully funny and touching but not very gay...I don't see the point of sad parties, do you? And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.

Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?

Sun, silence, and happiness.

You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.