A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.

We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

Myself I must remake.