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

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.

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.

It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.

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

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?