I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

Literature is news that stays news.

Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.