Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.