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

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

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

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

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.

Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.