I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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 real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.

Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.