"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

"The Irish are a fair people - they never speak well of one another"

"People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed."

"While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it."

"I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world."

"Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself."

"There is no gravity. The earth sucks."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"So many Gods, so many creeds So many ways that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs."

"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."

"If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do."

"Blood is inherited and virtue is acquired."