Every crucial experience can be regarded either as a setback, or the start of a wonderful new adventure, it depends on your perspective!

when knowledge comes in at the door, fear and superstition fly out of the window.

I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of those old men, making their wars that boys must die.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

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

The one pleasure that never palls is the pleasure of not going to church.

A little work, a little sleep, a little love and it's all over.