I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part.
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.