译文：凡是说祸福，是靠自己求来的，就是圣贤之言。若是说祸福，是靠上天决定的，就是庸俗之言。

Fish and visitors stink in 3 days.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

书籍是释放我们理解他人的钥匙。

把人分为好坏很荒谬。人要么有魅力，要么就无趣。