Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what he might be.
One believes in Stephen Dedalus as one believes in few characters in fiction.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
For after the Battle comes quiet.
... life falls into place only with God.
The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations.