I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

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

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

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

... 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.

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.