Some things are too important to be taken seriously.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense.