The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

Love is a misunderstanding between two fools.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.