Stephen Leacock

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

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.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the same thing.

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

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