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

Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

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

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

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

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

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.