There is nothing to which men cling more tenaciously than the privileges of class.

Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.

The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentists drill.

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

You can't love by desiring an extremely vague desire of a very vague moon.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

The mere fact that a very large number of people believe such a thing and that the world would be a better place if it were true, is no reason for believing that it is true.

Time: the Ever-flowing pen of God.

Any negotiation has a limit. Otherwise, war is irrelevant.

Should could no longer feel grief. She was now like a Geiger counter that had been subjected to too much radiation, no longer capable of giving any reaction, noiselessly displaying a reading of zero.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

It's not a very big step from contentment to complacency.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

Faithful to the cause of Prohibition - She hath done what she could

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

What unites us, is much greater than what divides us.

I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well