When you’re special to a cat, you’re special indeed…she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

We are all descendants of Adam, and we are all products of racial miscegenation

We have achieved the most amazing things, a few million people opening up half a continent. But we have not yet found a Canadian soul except in time of war.