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.

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.

No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.

Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

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