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

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.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

To be engaged in opposing wrong affords...but a slender guarantee for being right.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.

The disease of an evil conscience is beyond the practice of all the physicians of all the countries in the would.

Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.