We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
The unread is always better than the unreadable.
America is not a country, it is a world.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.