Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

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

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.