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.

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

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

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

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

It was Einstein who made the real trouble. He announced in 1905 that there was no such thing as absolute rest. After that there never was.