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