Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.