The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.

... Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country.