As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

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.

Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.