“Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.”
“Financial demands, of all the rough winds that blow upon our love, (are) quite the coldest and the most biting.”
“We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.”
“Farewell has a sweet sound of reluctance. Good-by is short and final, a word with teeth sharp to bite through the string that ties past to the future.”
“Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.”
“There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.”