Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. ... The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.