Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring this uniformity up to the highest possible point. A school is a hopper into which children are heaved while they are still young and tender; therein they are pressed into certain standard shapes and covered from head to heels with official rubber-stamps.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

The longest sentence you can form with two words is: I do.

The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring.

Sometimes the idiots outvote the sensible people.