Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

Property is organized robbery.

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.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.