Work hard, trust in God, and keep your bowels open.

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

He who stops being better stops being good.

Catholicism is more than a religion, it is a political power. Therefore I'm led to believe there will be no peace in Ireland until the Catholic Church is crushed

Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

I desire not to keep my place in this government an hour longer than I may preserve England in its just rights, and may protect the people of God in such a just liberty of their consciences.

I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.

Keep your faith in God, but keep your powder dry.

The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

Then was ashamed of myself. I should be happy for what I'd been given. I hoped God hadn't noticed my lapse in appreciation.

One of the favors life can do on you is to keep you busy.

Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won where the way leads to the cross.

It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important.

He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.

All friendly feelings toward others come from the friendly feelings a person has for himself.

Kilbane's head is better than his feet. If only he had three heads, one on the end of each leg.

Stop sitting there with your hands folded looking on, doing nothing; Get into action and live this full and glorious life. Now. You have to do it.

Style is attitude, attitude, attitude!

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.