If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.