Life, We Learn Too Late,

Electricity Is Of Two Kinds, Positive And Negative. The Difference Is, I Presume, That One Comes A Little More Expensive, But Is More Durable; The Other Is A Cheaper Thing, But The Moths Get Into It.

All Dickens's Humour Couldn't Save Dickens, Save Him From His Overcrowded Life, Its Sordid And Neurotic Central Tragedy And Its Premature Collapse. But Dickens's Humour, And All Such Humour, Has Saved Or At Least Greatly Served The World.

In Canada We Have Enough To Do Keeping Up With Two Spoken Languages ... So We Just Go Right Ahead And Use English For Literature, Scotch For Sermons, And American For Conversation.

In Ancient Times They Had No Statistics So They Had To Fall Back On Lies.

The Writing Of Solid, Instructive Stuff Fortified By Facts And Figures Is Easy Enough. There Is No Trouble In Writing A Scientific Treatise On The Folk-lore Of Central China, Or A Statistical Enquiry Into The Declining Population Of Prince Edward Island. But To Write Something Out Of One's Own Mind, Worth Reading For Its Own Sake, Is An Arduous Contrivance Only To Be Achieved In Fortunate Moments, Few And Far In Between. Personally, I Would Sooner Have Written Alice In Wonderland Than The Whole Encyclopedia Britannica.