Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

Property is organized robbery.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.