Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

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

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.