Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

It is by love alone that we understand anything

My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each other by, We do not live; we do not dare to live.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.