We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

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.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

I went out to the hazelwood because a fire was in my head.