The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher...and that is a good thing for any man.

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.

To be a good diarist, one must have a snouty, sneaky mind.

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow frequently and to puff

The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.