It's a strange thing now how people will know they're dying themselves when no one else could suspect anything wrong at all with them.

O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me!

The life in which nothing happens goes the fastest, because it has no landmarks.

The kind need kindness most of all.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.

I have always believed that hair is a very sure index of character.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

Drawbacks are good when you are on holiday. If the holiday were too good you might not want to go home again.

To have a mission is to find a thing that inspires you the most

Striving to be good is the ultimate struggle of every man. Being bad is easy, but being good requires sincere commitment, discipline and strength. We have to work hard every day just to remain good.

To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

Four hundred years of losing out on the girl of my dreams isn't sitting very well with me these days.

Most people in America think Art is a man's name.

I am a ordinary teenager. I fall in love like everyone else.

There is no such thing as applied science, only the application of pure science.

Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity's liberty!