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

Astronomy teaches the correct use of the sun and the planets.

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

American politicians do anything for money... English politicians take the money and won't do anything.

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

Most people tire of a lecture in ten minutes; clever people can do it in five. Sensible people never go to lectures at all. But the people who do go to a lecture and who get tired of it, presently hold it as a sort of grudge against the lecturer personally. In reality his sufferings are worse than theirs.

When actors begin to think, it's time for a change. They are not fitted for it.