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

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.

We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

I tell you naught for your comfort, Yea, naught for your desire, Save that the sky grows darker yet And the sea rises higher.

I would never commit the positively anti-social action of robbing a bank, or worse still, working in one.

If there is one thing worse than the modern weakening of major morals, it is the modern strengthening of minor morals.