He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you.