The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

Next to the semi-colon, quotation marks seem to be the chief butts of reformatory ardor.

Genius: the ability to prolong one's childhood.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.

To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue teaches.