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.

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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

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

In earlier times they had no statistics and so they had to fall back on lies. Hence the huge exaggerations of primitive literature, giants, miracles, wonders! It's the size that counts. They did it with lies and we do it with statistics: but it's all the same.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.