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.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.