We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.