We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

There is no knowledge for which so great a price is paid as a knowledge of the world; and no one ever became an adept in it except at the expense of a hardened or a wounded heart.

Mediocrity is beneath a brave soul.

He who fears not, is to be feared.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Men who would persecute others for religious opinions, prove the errors of their own.