Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.

What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.