Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

A great social reformer.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.