Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it