One can always tell it's summer when one sees school teachers hanging about the streets idly, looking like cannibals during a shortage of missionaries.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

On the whole, we treat the Devil shamefully, and the worse we treat Him the more He laughs at us.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.