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 is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.

Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?

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

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.

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

I hold that the beginning of modern Irish drama was in the winter of 1898, at a school feast at Coole, when Douglas Hyde and Miss Norma Borthwick acted in Irish in a Punch and Judy show; and the delighted children went back to tell their parents what grand curses 'An Craoibhin' had put on the baby and the policeman.