It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

My reputation grows with every failure.