Good Writing Is Like A Windowpane.

If It Is Possible To Cut A Word Out, Always Cut It Out

Perhaps One Did Not Want To Be Loved So Much As To Be Understood.

A Tragic Situation Exists Precisely When Virtue Does Not Triumph But When It Is Still Felt That Man Is Nobler Than The Forces Which Destroy Him.

Is The English Press Honest Or Dishonest? At Normal Times It Is Deeply Dishonest. All The Papers That Matter Live Off Their Advertisements, And The Advertisers Exercise An Indirect Censorship Over News. Yet I Do Not Suppose There Is One Paper In England That Can Be Straightforwardly Bribed With Hard Cash. In The France Of The Third Republic All But A Very Few Of The Newspapers Could Notoriously Be Bought Over The Counter Like So Many Pounds Of Cheese.

War Against A Foreign Country Only Happens When The Moneyed Classes Think They Are Going To Profit From It.