I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

A professional politician is a professionally dishonourable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

In order to teach chemistry or psychology or even history or Greek a man must actually know something, but for the teacher of English nothing seems to be necessary beyond a crude capacity to read and write

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

There was a lot of tension, especially when they said they weren't giving money out. It looks like it's moving [more] smoothly.