The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can possess. Every man would be rich, powerful, and famous; yet fame, power, and riches, are only the names of relative conditions, which imply the obscurity, dependence, and poverty of greater numbers.

"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

He who would govern his actions by the laws of virtue must regulate his thoughts by those of reason.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

I do not envy a clergyman's life as an easy life, nor do I envy the clergyman who makes it an easy life.

You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.