The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.