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

Well, there's no one at all, they do be saying, but is deserving of some punishment from the very minute of his birth.

There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.

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

There's more learning than is taught in books.

It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.

As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.