Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.