[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.

Teachers affect eternity. There is no telling where their influence stops.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting together in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.

The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.

During an election campaign the air is full of speeches and vice versa.