I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. - Stephen Leacock

My parents migrated to Canada in 1876, and I decided to go with them.

You know, many a man realizes late in life that if when he was a boy he had known what he knows now, instead of being what he is he might be what he won't; but how few boys stop to think that if they knew what they don't know instead of being what they will be, they wouldn't be?

Lord Ronald said nothing; he flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.