In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.
We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.