Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected.

He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him.

Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all.

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