All are / naked, none is safe.

There never was a war that was not inward; I must fight till I have conquered in myself what causes war.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

It is in general true that in order to create works of art one has to have leisure. On the other hand I think that one needs to experience resistance in a practical sense, and even that which is poignant to bring out what makes easy reading for others. Too much deprivation of course, means death.

My father used to say, "Superior people never make long visits, have to be shown Longfellows grave, or the glass flowers at Harvard."

We prove, we do not explain, our birth.