It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

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

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.