Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

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

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.