Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.