The most revolutionary invention of the Nineteenth Century was the artificial sterilization of marriage.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination