Stephen Leacock

If every day in the life of a school could be the last day but one, there would be little fault to find with it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going.

If you compare NASA's annual budget to explore the heavens, that one year budget would fund NOAA's budget to explore the oceans for 1,600 years.

It's easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.