What opinions the masses hold, or do not hold, is looked upon as a matter of indifference. They can be granted intellectual liberty becasue they have no intellect.

...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

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.

Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

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