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

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

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

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

Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.

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

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