We are always giving foreign names to very native things. If there is a thing that reeks of the glorious tradition of the old English tavern, it is toasted cheese. But for some wild reason we call it Welsh rarebit. I believe that what we call Irish stew might more properly be called English stew, and that it is not particularly familiar in Ireland.

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

It is quite easy to see why a legend is treated, and ought to be treated, more respectfully than a book of history. The legend is generally made by the majority of people in the village, who are sane. The book is generally written by the one man in the village who is mad.

And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.