We have a reading, a talking, and a writing public. When shall we have a thinking?

Borrowed thoughts, like borrowed money, only show the poverty of the borrower.

... I never will allow myself to form an ideal of any person I desire to see, for disappointment never fails to ensue.

Religion converts despair, which destroys, into resignation, which submits.

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.

Sure there's different roads from this to Dungarvan* - some thinks one road pleasanter, and some think another; wouldn't it be mighty foolish to quarrel for this? - and sure isn't it twice worse to thry to interfere with people for choosing the road they like best to heaven?

Some people are capable of making great sacrifices, but few are capable of concealing how much the effort has cost them; and it is this concealment that constitutes their value.