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

It has been said that the love of money is the root of all evil. The want of money is so quite as truly.

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

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.