There is an old motto that runs, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try again." This is nonsense. It ought to read, "If at first you don't succeed, quit, quit at once."

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Chess is one long regret.

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.

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

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.

Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.