I really do not see much use in exalting the humble and meek; they do not remain humble and meek long when they are exalted.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

There is no bore like a clever bore.

A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.