Better never than late.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.