A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels.

They clichés will construct your sentences for you - even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent - and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.

No man should be allowed to be the President who does not understand hogs, or hasn't been around a manure pile.

Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.

Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.