My husband was in the war of the Crimea. It is terrible the hardships he went through‚ to be two months without going into a house‚ under the snow in trenches. And no food to get‚ maybe a biscuit in the day. And there was enough food there‚ he said‚ to feed all Ireland; but bad management‚ they could not get it.

It is not always them that has the most that makes the most show.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

It takes madness to find out madness.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?