He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become as wise at sixty as he thought himself at twenty.

There is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

In some parts of Ireland the sleep which knows no waking is always followed by a wake which knows no sleeping.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.