What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

There's many a true word spoken in jest.

Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.