When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.