The writing of solid, instructive stuff fortified by facts and figures is easy enough. There is no trouble in writing a scientific treatise on the folk-lore of Central China, or a statistical enquiry into the declining population of Prince Edward Island. But to write something out of one's own mind, worth reading for its own sake, is an arduous contrivance only to be achieved in fortunate moments, few and far in between. Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.

As for politics, well, it all seemed reasonable enough. When the Conservatives got in anywhere, [Judge] Pepperleigh laughed and enjoyed it, simply because it does one good to see a straight, fine, honest fight where the best man wins. When a Liberal got in, it made him mad, and he said so,-not, mind you; from any political bias, for his office forbid it,-but simply because one can't bear to see the country go absolutely to the devil.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

I owe a lot to my teachers and mean to pay them back some day.

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

The Lord said 'let there be wheat' and Saskatchewan was born