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

The Irish always jest even though they jest with tears.

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

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

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.

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