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

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

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

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

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.

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

In writing a little tragedy, 'The Gaol Gate,' I made the scenario in three lines, 'He is an informer; he is dead; he is hanged.' I wrote that play very quickly.