I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

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