It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy - but he who has shown the better temper.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

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.

In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.