The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.
There is no pleasure subtler than the sensation of being a good workman; and in work there is the sense of consanguinity-unconscious as a rule but sometimes conscious.
... we do not admire what we cannot understand.
A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.