John Morley: “English interference is always at the root of mischief in Ireland.”

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?

Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.