Religion dies hard in the Irish.

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.

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.

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

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

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