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?

To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

Life would be as insupportable without the prospect of death, as it would be without sleep.

You were wise not to waste years in a lawsuit ... he who commences a suit resembles him who plants a palm-tree which he will not live to see flourish.

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves.