The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions.

People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.

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

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

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