The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.