It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.