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

And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.

People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.

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.

The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Let man be true and every god a liar.