The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

The function of comedy is to dispelunconsciousness by turning the searchlight of the keenest moral and intellectual analysisright on to it.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.

Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.