I never expect a soldier to think.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

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.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.