When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

As we retain but a faint remembrance of our felicity, it is but fair that the smartest stroke of sorrow should, if bitter, at least be brief.

Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick.

What is crime amongst the multitude, is only vice among the few.

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

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

The most powerful men are not public men: a public man is responsible, and a responsible man is a slave. It is private life that governs the world.