Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.