Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.

A Christian is God Almighty's gentleman: a gentleman, in the vulgar superficial way of understanding the word, is the Devil's Christian.

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.

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

Examples would indeed be excellent things were not people so modest that none will set, and so vain that none will follow them.

What hypocrites we seem to be whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.