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.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.

Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.

The only way to get rid of tempation is to yeild to it.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.