I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

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

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.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

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

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

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.