Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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.