Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?