It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

The kind need kindness most of all.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

... 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.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

January has only one thing to be said for it: it is followed by February. Nothing so well becomes its passing.