And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

Though the last glimpse of Erin with sorrow I see, Yet wherever thou art shall seem Erin to me; In exile thy bosom shall still be my home, And thine eyes make my climate wherever we roam.

I have plenty of machinery around me; what I really need is a more enchanting world in which to live and work.

The devil...the prowde spirite...cannot endure to be mocked.

This wretched brain gave way, and I became a wreck at random driven, without one glimpse of reason or heaven.

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roue to retire upon.

Socrates and Jesus, two teachers of virtue and love, were executed because of the unsettling, threatening power of their souls, which was revealed in their personal lives and in their words.