“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

“Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.”

“She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.”

“There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…”

“It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people- with the single mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.”

“Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.”