The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart.

That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed.

Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?

But in this country we have one great privilege which they don't have in other countries. When a thing gets to be absolutely unbearable the people can rise up and throw it off. That's the finest asset we've got - the ballot box.

Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?