[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.