The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.