Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.

Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

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

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

Prayers are to men as dolls are to children.

Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order.