"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." ― Stephen Leacock Topic(s): Great More From Stephen Leacock "Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect." "A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better." "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." More In Great "Great things are done when men and mountains meet."― William Blake "Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation."― Saint Augustine "If the individual is to be happy in the contemporary order, he must be open-minded with respect to new values and new arrangements."― Thomas Cochrane