The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others.
Crimes sometimes shock us too much; vices almost always too little.
It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life.
The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road.