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

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

If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?

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

I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.

I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.

It takes madness to find out madness.