If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.

Any two meals at a boarding-house are together less than two square meals.

I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be.

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.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

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.

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