Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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

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