I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged.

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

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.