There is a mass of people, we might as well admit, who if they weren't watching television, would be doing absolutely nothing else.

Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Oratory is the art of making a loud noise sound like a deep thought.

Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.

There once was a student named Bessor Whose knowledge grew lessor and lessor. It at last grew so small He knew nothing at all, And today he's a college professor!

I think it's become fashionable for the snobbish egghead today to make fun of television. I've heard many people, boast, "I would never have a television set in my house," well, these people are fools.

Good manners: The noise you don't make when you're eating soup.