My home is not a place, it is people.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.