Perseverance and tact are the two most important qualities for the individual who wants to move ahead.

No enemy is indeed so terrible as a man of genius.

Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honors or of wealth.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.