The average smartphone user checks his or her device every six and a half minutes.
Taste is nothing but a delicate good sense.
Wit resembles a coquette; those who the most eagerly run after it are the least favored.
Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
What is virtue? Reason in practice.
I preach that odd defiant melancholy that sees the dreadful loneliness of the human soul and the pitiful disaster of human life as ever redeemable and redeemed by compassion, friendship and love.
For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn’t about conquering something, it’s being happy with who you are.
In later years, it was common, and I was guilty in this respect, to question the motives of those who joined the new British armies at the outbreak of the Great War, but it must, in their honour and fairness to their memories, be said that they were motivated by the highest purpose, and died in their tens of thousands in Flanders and Gallipoli, believing that they were giving their lives in the cause of human liberty everywhere, including Ireland.
Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government. . . . Man's place is in the armory.