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

Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.

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.