We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Ah, Ireland... That damnable, delightful country, where everything that is right is the opposite of what it ought to be.

Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of the angels.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.