An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.

Most prisons have wide gates!

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man marks the value, not only of his cause, but of himself.

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.