If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.

If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

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

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

You forget that the kingdom of heaven suffers violence: and the kingdom of heaven is like a woman.