There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."