The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

To write well it is first necessary to have something to say.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

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.

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

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

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer "an alleged murderer" and the King of England "the alleged King of England" in order to avoid libel suits.