Every Irishman, The Saying Goes, Has A

Never Put Much Confidence In Such As Put No Confidence In Others. A Man Prone To Suspect Evil Is Mostly Looking In His Neighbor For What He Sees In Himself. As To The Pure All Things Are Pure, Even So To The Impure All Things Are Impure.

A Statesman, We Are Told, Should Follow Public Opinion. Doubtless, As A Coachman Follows His Horses; Having Firm Hold On The Reins And Guiding Them.

Man Is A Mixed Being, Made Up Of A Spiritual Soul And Of A Fleshly Body; The Angels Are Pure Spirits, Herein Nearer To God, Only That They Are Created And Finite In All Respects, Free From Decay, Free From The Power Of Death, Whereas God Is Infinite And Uncreated.

It Is A Proof Of Our Natural Bias To Evil, That Gain Is Slower And Harder Than Loss In All Things Good; But In All Things Bad Getting Is Quicker And Easier Than Getting Rid Of.

It Is Well For Us That We Are Born Babies In Intellect. Could We Understand Half What Mothers Say And Do To Their Infants, We Should Be Filled With A Conceit Of Our Own Importance, Which Would Render Us Insupportable Through Life.