The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it.
There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon.
Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
Alas! the culture of an Irishman is an enterprise to be undertaken with a sort of moral bog hoe.
Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life into our pores. Do not stay to be an overseer of the poor, but endeavor to become one of the worthies of the world.