Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.
Men are monopolists of "stars, garters, buttons and other shining baubles"- unfit to be the guardians of another person's happiness.
Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.
Truly as the sun can rot or mend, love can make one bestial or make a beast a man.
Blessed the geniuses who know / that egomania is not a duty.
There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.