Irish poet and playwright
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize ones nature perfectly — that is what each of us is here for.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.