The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.