The great menace of civilization in the present is that we offer an education with too little regard for the roots.

Canada is not a melting-pot. Canada is an association of peoples who have, and cherish, great differences but who work together because they can respect themselves and each other.

Technology has been defined, perhaps a little ungenerously, as "a long Greek name for a bag of tools".

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.

It is the University's function to turn out well-balanced persons with an understanding of themselves and of their place in life.

We can best serve the cause of Canadian unity and understanding by living first in and through and then beyond our own immediate traditions.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

History is the necessary food of good and noble sentiments. It ought to give us at once humility and confidence in the face of greatness.

How great a quality is horse sense! Someone has defined it as that something which keeps horses from betting on men!

In fact, in the far North one sees the northern lights facing south!

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

I think that we really fool ourselves about our ability to be safe and secure nowadays.

No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.

Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.

And finally, in our time a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

In order to do a good job of those things that we decide to do, we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

The political mirage of something for nothing, from leaders who 'care,' has ruined many a nation.

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed.