Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.

One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.

All criticism is a form of autobiography

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.