Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.

Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?

I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.