Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.

P.S. If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know.

A man could not be in two places at the same time unless he were a bird.

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.