Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

Religion is a good invention in times of stress.