We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.
Life — how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
We are used to the actions of human beings, not to their stillness.
Criticism changes with the fashion of the time. A story is always a story.
One recalls how much the creative impulse of the best-sellers depends upon self-pity. It is an emotion of great dramatic potential.
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.