"I can live as the boys live, and if God wishes the work to succeed, He will surely provide the means."

"In looking after the interests of the child it is necessary to cultivate the heart. You must eradicate the vices of y…"

"I am firmly convinced that the conduct of the Irish in America has been strongly influential in winning for those at …"

"The very oppressions which the Irish suffer at home, teach them to prize the freedom of America more ardently than is…"

"The fatalities which destroyed the men of another period originated in crafty diplomacy, soothing promises, and flatt…"

"I confess, that the history of religion in Ireland has always had peculiar charms for me; and although I have ever fe…"

"No human vanity can be more pitiable than that of seeking to give an eternity of preservation to particles of dust, w…"

"The story of Margaret Haughery is one of the sweetest ever told. Her life is a lesson of love in charity which this a…"

"... I liked teaching math best because I don’t have a natural way with figures and therefore had sympathy with the ch…"

"You have to walk to get to know a city; it was then — in the Dublin of the 1940s — that I first discovered that. was …"