The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.