If people would dare to speak to one another unreservedly, there would be a good deal less sorrow in the world a hundred years hence.

People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and seeing it practiced

Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficult

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.

People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect.