What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing

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.

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.

Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

In Canada we have enough to do keeping up with two spoken languages ... so we just go right ahead and use English for literature, Scotch for sermons, and American for conversation.

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.