I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

Do not turn the superior eye of critical passivity upon these efforts .... We must not be ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content ourselves with a joy ride in a paint-box.

It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space.

No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas.