The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.