I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

Punctuality is the thief of time

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.