Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

No, it's the musicians and I must say they are an accomplished bunch, but odd, as musicians tend to be. Is it the vibration from their instruments, do you suppose, working on the brain? All that fraught buzzing?

Although there may be nothing new under the sun, what is old is new to us and so rich and astonishing that we never tire of it. If we do tire of it, if we lose our curiosity, we have lost something of infinite value, because to a high degree it is curiosity that gives meaning and savour to life.

She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

If you attack Stupidity you attack an entrenched interest with friends in government and every walk of public life.