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.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.

The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.

You must originate, and you must sympathize; yon must possess, at the same time, the habit of communicating and the habit of listening. The union is rather rare, but irresistible.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.