Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen LeacockThe student of arithmetic who has mastered the first four rules of his art, and successfully striven with money sums and fractions, finds himself confronted by an unbroken expanse of questions known as problems.
Stephen LeacockA half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.
Stephen LeacockA lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.
Stephen Leacock