we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

We Irish will never achieve anything; but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks