Invention$$$ it must be humbly admitted$$$ does not consist in creating out of void but out of chaos.

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground$$$ and it explodes into an oak!

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut$$$ and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.