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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.