Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.