There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it.

Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life.

The English know how to make the best of things. Their so-called muddling through is simply skill at dealing with the inevitable.

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

A joke is a very serious thing.

Rules were made for fools to follow and wise men to be guided by.