To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.

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

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

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.

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.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.