There is a limit to the work that can be got out of a human body or a human brain, and he is a wise man who wastes no energy on pursuits for which he is not fitted; and he is still wiser who, from among the things that he can do well, chooses and resolut

Show me the manner in which a nation or a community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Avarice, where it has full dominion, excludes every other passion.

The resources of civilization are not yet exhausted.

It is no use for the honorable member to shake his head in the teeth of his own words.

Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?