There is no cosmetic like happiness

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Modern historians are all would-be philosophers; who, instead of relating facts as they occurred, give us their version, or rather perversions of them, always colored by their political prejudices, or distorted to establish some theory . . .

Grief is, of all the passions, the one that is the most ingenious and indefatigable in finding food for its own subsistence.