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.

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

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

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.

Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.