To be a saint does not exclude fine dresses nor a beautiful house.
The kind need kindness most of all.
Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.
The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.
The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.
It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.