If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

There are no limits to the majestic future which lies before the mighty expanse of Canada with its virile, aspiring, cultured, and generous-hearted people.

[The Balkans] produce more history than they can consume.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right.