First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.