It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.

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

There's more learning than is taught in books.

It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.

In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

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

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