Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

The kind need kindness most of all.

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

... 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.

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.

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