Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.

She is a girl would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.

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

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.

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.