Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

The more ignorant men are, the more convinced are they that their little parish and their little chapel is an apex to which civilization and philosophy has painfully struggled up the pyramid of time from a desert of savagery.

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.