The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
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.
To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.