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.
H. L. MenckenThe average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichรฉs.
H. L. MenckenThe law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.
H. L. Mencken