Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.

Success is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

In ancient times they had no statistics so they had to fall back on lies.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

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