No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

Human society is the embodiment of changeless laws which the whimsicalities and circumstances of men and women involve and overwrap. The realm of literature is the realm of these accidental manners and humours--a spacious realm; and the true literary artist concerns himself mainly with them.

[...] a darkness shining in brightness which brightness could not comprehend.

Her lips touched his brain as they touched his lips, as though they were a vehicle of some vague speech and between them he felt an unknown and timid preasure, darker than the swoon of sin, softer than sound or odor.