Every trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.

It was at Inver Slane, to the north of Leinster, the sons of Gaedhal of the Shining Armour, the Very Gentle, that were called afterwards the Sons of the Gael, made their first attempt to land in Ireland to avenge Ith, one of their race that had come there one time and had met with his death.

Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

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

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.

There's more learning than is taught in books.