It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
All movements go too far.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.