The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

Man has created death.