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

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.

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

Advertising: the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.

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.

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