Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Some people carry their hearts in their heads; very many carry their heads in their hearts. The difficulty is to keep them apart, yet both actively working together.

Friendship closes its eye rather than see the moon eclipsed; while malice denies that it is ever at the full.

Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.

It is with flowers as with moral qualities; the bright are sometimes poisonous; but, I believe, never the sweet.