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

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.

Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.

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.

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

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.

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