Each section of the British Isles has its own way of laughing, except Wales, which doesn't.

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

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

How can you shorten the subject? That stern struggle with the multiplication table, for many people not yet ended in victory, how can you make it less? Square root, as obdurate as a hardwood stump in a pasturenothing but years of effort can extract it. You can't hurry the process. Or pass from arithmetic to algebra; you can't shoulder your way past quadratic equations or ripple through the binomial theorem. Instead, the other way; your feet are impeded in the tangled growth, your pace slackens, you sink and fall somewhere near the binomial theorem with the calculus in sight on the horizon.

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

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

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.