"Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you."

“... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.”

Source : Albion Fellows Bacon (1914). “Beauty for Ashes, by Albion Fellows Bacon; with Numerous Illustrations”

“I believe that from the earth emerges a musical poetry that is by the nature of its sources tonal. I believe that these sources cause to exist a phonology of music, which evolves from the universal, and is known as the harmonic series.”

“The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.”

“Behold me! I am worthy Of thy loving, for I love thee!”

“When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2011). “The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman”, p.118, Souvenir Press

“I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long.”

“I was very fortunate and didn't personally encounter any bullies in school, however bullies exist in many ways in life.”

“The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.”