It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same rights, the same capabilities, and the same responsibilities. While my hand can hold a pen, I will use it to this end; and while my brain can earn a dollar, I will devote it to this end.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.