Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The great thing about human language is that it prevents us from sticking to the matter at hand.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.

If ye break faith with us who die <br> We shall not sleep, though poppies grow <br> In Flanders fields.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.

So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.