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.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.