The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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.

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.