Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

We were always loyal to lost causes...Success for us is the death of the intellect and of the imagination. ~ Professor MacHugh

You made me confess the fears that I have. But I will tell you also what I do not fear. I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake and perhaps as long as eternity too.

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

My puns are not trivial. They are quadrivial

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.