Children must be educated by love, not punishment.

The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day and, as he stared through the dull square of the window of the schoolroom, he felt his belly crave for its food. He hoped there would be stew for dinner, turnips and carrots and bruised potatoes and fat mutton pieces to be ladled out in thick peppered flourfattened sauce. Stuff it into you, his belly counselled him.

Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.

She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew the small number of his talents she appreciated his abstract value as a male.

Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read.

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

if it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness.