There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.

If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.

If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

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

God and the Devil are an effort after specialisation and division of labour.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.