For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it.

A true Friendship is as wise as it is tender. The parties to it yield implicitly to the guidance of their love, and know no otherlaw nor kindness.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.

Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.

All great enterprises are self-supporting.