Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us.

The researcher is more memorable than the researched.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.