Opinions founded on prejudice are always sustained with the greatest of violence.

Satire is a composition of salt and mercury; and it depends upon the different mixture and preparation of those ingredients, that it comes out a noble medicine, or a rank poison.

Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility.

The cheat ambition, eager to espouse dominion, courts it with a lying show, and shines in borrowed pomp to serve a turn.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

Damn the Solar System. Bad light; planets too distant; pestered with comets; feeble contrivance; could make a better myself.

The disease and its medicine are like two factions in a besieged town; they tear one another to pieces, but both unite against their common enemy, Nature.

Nothing is so firmly than that which is least known.

Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.

An obligation is something which constrains or induces us to act.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Your daily habit is one of the most important predictors of the quality of your life.

. . . it's part of the adventure!

The struggle is beautiful.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

You are your best self when you give yourself away.

by the general love of scandal and detraction in Dublin, one might reasonably imagine they were all to feed themselves through the holes which they had made in the characters of others.

Love is like a reservoir of kindness and pleasure, like silos and pools during a siege.