Be thorough in all you do; and remember that although ignorance often may be innocent, pretension is always despicable..

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

Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an e….

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books - even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, ….

One example is worth a thousand arguments..

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong..

Justice delayed is justice denied..

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

The errors of former times are recorded for our instruction in order that we may avoid their repition..

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace..

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will cal….

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrut….

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….

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..

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 pe….

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home..

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear..

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes..

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness..

National injustice is the surest road to national downfall..

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right..