Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

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.

A good horse is the best company in the world.

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.

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality.

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

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.