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.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

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.

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

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

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