Children are all foreigners.
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.
Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.
Life is a festival only to the wise.
A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you’re playing a solo game, you’ll always lose out to a team.
To be a man’s own fool is bad enough, but the vain man is everybody’s.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.
Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument.
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.
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
All problems are finally scientific problems.
Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Excessive literary production is a social offense.
