I’ve a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.

The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

It doesn’t matter what he says; it matters what he does.

It doesn’t matter what one says; it matters what one does.

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

How success changes the opinion of men!

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.