The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.

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

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

War does not decide who is right but who is left.

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.