Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable.

I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.