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

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 takes madness to find out madness.

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.

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.

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

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