[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

To the bottle! In infancy, the milk bottle; in our prime, the wine bottle; in our dotage, the pill bottle.

Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache.

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.

Conflict is the very essence of life.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.