What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.

A lonely impulse of delight

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.

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

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