I do not elevate the time or mode of baptism to a primary doctrine.
As to the old history of Ireland, the first man ever died in Ireland was Partholan, and he is buried, and his greyhound along with him, at some place in Kerry.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
It will be more love, not more information, that will change our hearts.
A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.
No man learns to know his inmost nature by introspection, for he rates himself sometimes too low, and often too high, by his own measurement. Man knows himself only by comparing himself with other men; it is life that touches his genuine worth.
People are always very nice.