What the meaning of human life may be I don't know: I incline to suspect that it has none.

There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The American people, I am convinced, really detest free speech. At the slightest alarm they are ready and eager to put it down.

This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their specialties-for example, Huxley, Ostwald, Karl Ludwig, Virchow, Billroth, Jowett, William G. Sumner, Halsted and Osler-men who knew nothing whatever about the so-called science of pedagogy, and would have derided its alleged principles if they had heard them stated.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.