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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

The true faith discovered was When painted panel, statuary, Glass-mosaic, window-glass, Amended what was told awry By some peasant gospeler.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.