People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.

No one who has any self-respect stays in Ireland, but flees afar as though from a country that has undergone the visitation of an angered Jove.

The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.

Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

But we are living in a sceptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age: and sometimes I fear that this new generation, educated or hyper-educated as it is, will lack those qualities of humanity, of hospitality, of kindly humour which belonged to an older day.

(...) You cruel creature, little mite of a thing with a heart the size of a fullstop.

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