One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

The miser is the man who starves himself and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.

I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

He had found the thing which the modern people call Impressionism, which is another name for that final scepticism which can find no floor to the universe.