Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.