But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

My father was an angry and impatient teacher and flung the reading book at my head.

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

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

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.