Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.

The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.

It is only as a man puts off from himself all external support, and stands alone, that I see him to be strong and to prevail.

The rule for hospitality and Irish "help," is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O'Shaughnessylearns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.

If two or three persons should come with a high spiritual aim and with great powers, the world would fall into their hands like a ripe peach.

I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He who keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.