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

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

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

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

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.

History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.