I've seen lifelong friends drift apart over golf just because one could play better, but the other counted better.

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

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.

There is no doubt that many things in life come to us...at backrounds so to speak. Happiness is one of them.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.