God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them.

Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.

Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.

The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.

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.

Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés.