Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.