That Older And Greater Church To Which

All The Sweetness Of Religion Is Conveyed To The World By The Hands Of Storytellers And Image-makers. Without Their Fictions The Truths Of Religion Would For The Multitude Be Neither Intelligible Nor Even Apprehensible; And The Prophets Would Prophesy And The Teachers Teach In Vain.

Our First Duty, To Which Every Other Consideration Should Be Sacrificed, Is Not To Be Poor.

Put An Irishman On The Spit And You Can Always Get Another Irishman To Turn Him.

People Must Not Be Forced To Adopt Me As Their Favourite Author, Even For Their Own Good.

The Most Sublime Courage I Have Ever Witnessed Has Been Among That Class Too Poor To Know They Possessed It, And Too Humble For The World To Discover It.