No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.

Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world.

The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.

[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks of him, one thinks inevitably of such men as Goethe and Aristotle. For in him there was that rich, incomparable blend of intelligence and character, of colossal knowledge and high adventurousness, of instinctive honesty and indomitable courage which appears in mankind only once in a blue moon. There have been far greater scientists, even in England, but there has never been a scientist who was a greater man.

He who eats alone chokes alone.

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