Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.

The enemies of freedom do not argue; they shout and they shoot.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values.

Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.