Don't Break The Silence Unless You Can

Literature Flourishes Best When It Is Half A Trade And Half An Art.

The Effect Of Boredom On A Large Scale In History Is Underestimated. It Is A Main Cause Of Revolutions, And Would Soon Bring To An End All The Static Utopias And The Farmyard Civilization Of The Fabians.

Each Generation Takes A Special Pleasure In Removing The Household Gods Of Its Parents From Their Pedestals, And Consigning Them To The Cupboard.

The Happy People Are Those Who Are Producing Something; The Bored People Are Those Who Are Consuming Much And Producing Nothing.

A Nation Is A Society United By A Delusion About Its Ancestry And By Common Hatred Of Its Neighbours.