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?
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.