If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time.

Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess.

We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary.

Rich people are poor people with money.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body.