As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.

It's a grand thing to be able to take your money in your hand and to think no more of it when it slips away from you than you would a trout that would slip back into the stream.

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.

From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

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

Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.