Being a specialist is one thing, getting a job is another.

Chess is one long regret.

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

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

Charles Dickens' creation of Mr. Pickwick did more for the elevation of the human race - I say it in all seriousness - than Cardinal Newman's Lead Kindly Light Amid the Encircling Gloom. Newman only cried out for light in the gloom of a sad world. Dickens gave it.

About the only good thing you can say about old age is, it's better than being dead!

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.