The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to have its particular barbed shaft aimed at one from every stick and stone that mark familiar ways.

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!

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures.

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest.

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure.

The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplishment, when the adventurer deliberately sets his face toward the new road, knowing that his boats are burned.