There is no sin coveting things are of no great use or profit, but would show out good and have some grandeur around them.

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

Every day in the year there comes some malice into the world, and where it comes from is no good place.

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.

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

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

It is the old battle, between those who use a toothbrush and those who don't.