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

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

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.

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.

Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

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.

What are prophecies? Don't we hear them every day of the week? And if one comes true there may be seven blind and come to nothing.