Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.