when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

Is it not monstrous that our seducers should be our accusers?

Reputation ... is as often gained without merit as lost without a crime.

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.

I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

Having a team deliver standards and performance is much easier when they want to be there and want to be led by you.

Greatness emanates through endurance and triumph over the difficulties in life.

It was not a triumphal return. Home, as I had known it, was gone.

As more busier and overwhelmed you're, as more free time you have.

Love is at once more animal than friendship and more divine.

It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

Any pleasure gained by means other than mental control weakens the body.

War is a profession by which a man cannot live honorably; an employment by which the soldier, if he would reap any profit, is obliged to be false, rapacious, and cruel.

For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.