Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

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

Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.