A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

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

Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.

There are two things in ordinary conversation which ordinary people dislike - information and wit

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.