The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Worry - a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair gray.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

Consider Ireland.... You have a starving population, an absentee aristocracy, and an alien Church, and in addition the weakest executive in the world. That is the Irish Question.

Our domestic affections are the most salutary basis of all good government.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.