Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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.

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.