Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist.

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.

Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be, for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable. To be sure, theology is always yielding a little to the progress of knowledge, and only a Holy Roller in the mountains of Tennessee would dare to preach today what the popes preached in the Thirteenth Century, but this yielding is always done grudgingly, and thus lingers a good while behind the event.

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.