In too many modern churches there is no emphasis on theology at all. There is a kind of justification by works or by keeping up with modern trends an….

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed..

Childhood may have periods of great happiness, but it also has times that must simply be endured. Childhood at its best is a form of slavery tempered….

The love of truth lies at the root of much humor..

Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never qu….

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather..

Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually r….

People are not saints just because they haven't got much money or education..

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled..

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule..

To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the sa….

In a government like ours, the Crown is the abiding and unshakable element in government; politicians may come and go, but the Crown remains and cert….

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the ….

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly..

If I had to describe my remarks this evening frankly as if I were in police court and on oath, so to speak I should have to call it a ramble over sev….

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory..

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself..

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitu….

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task..

The Alexander Technique keeps the body alive, at ages when many people have resigned themselves to irreversible decline..

As the tragic writer rids us of what is petty and ignoble in our nature, so also the humorist rids us of what is cautious, calculating, and priggish-….