Arthur Cockfield is a Professor with Queen’s University Faculty of Law where most of his research and teaching focuses on tax law.

I wish to inform you that the [tax] profession to which you aspire is, in fact, heroic… In fact, the less conventionally heroic or exciting or adverting or even interesting or engaging a labor appears to be, the greater its potential as an arena for actual heroism, and therefore as a denomination of joy unequaled by any you can yet imagine.