In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.
I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.
The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.
If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.