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

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

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.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

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