the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.

the way with Ireland is that no sooner do you get away from her than the golden mists begin to close about her, and she lies, an Island of the Blest, something enchanted in our dreams. When you come back you may think you are disillusioned, but you know well that the fairy mists will begin to gather about her once more.

The trouble with the Irish question always has been that it was an English question.

The kind need kindness most of all.

Often our bad moments are self-propelled ... And the drama is almost exclusively within our heads and hearts.

Irish people have a trick of over-statement, at which one ceases to wince as one grows older.