Marxism: The theory that all the important things in history are rooted in an economic motive, that history is a science, a science of the search for food.

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

When some English moralists write about the importance of having character, they appear to mean only the importance of having a dull character.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Truth, of course, must of necessity be stranger than fiction, for we have made fiction to suit ourselves.

Pride juggles with her toppling towers, They strike the sun and cease, But the firm feet of humility They grip the ground like trees.