Genius is the gold in the mine, talent is the miner who works and brings it out.

Praise is the only gift for which people are really grateful.

Listeners beware, for ye are doomed never to hear good of yourselves.

Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.

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?

A poor man defended himself when charged with stealing food to appease the cravings of hunger, saying, the cries of the stomach silenced those of the conscience.

Only vain people wage war against the vanity of others.