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.

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

When one reads these strange pages of one long gone one feels that one is at one with one who once.

Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.

Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall.