The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.

A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.