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.

There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

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

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.

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.

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.