Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.