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

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

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.

Man without religion is the creature of circumstances: Religion is above all circumstances, and will lift him up above them.

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.

Truth, when witty, is the wittiest of all things.

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