Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved.