What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.