The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime

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

Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it to admire it, you are lost.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.