Canadian "author, educator, economist, humorist".
"He was an economic professor noted for popular humor books, literary biographies."
If I were founding a university I would begin with a smoking room; next a dormitory; and then a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had more money that I couldn't use, I would hire a professor and get some text books."
"It may be those who do most, dream most."
"A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better."
"Personally, I would sooner have written "Alice in Wonderland" than the whole "Encyclopedia Britannica"."
Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.