The history of art is the history of revivals.

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.

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.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

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.

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

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.