Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

We are more prone to murmur at the punishment of our faults than to lament them.

Those can most easily dispense with society who are the most calculated to adorn it; they only are dependent on it who possess no mental resources, for though they bring nothing to the general mart, like beggars, they are too poor to stay at home.

alas! there is no casting anchor in the stream of time!

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?

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness.