Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Never eat more than you can lift.