Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.
Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
Love dwindles by pairing.
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.
It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.
When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.
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