We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

You cannot fight against future. Time is on its side.

Good laws make it easier to do right and harder to do wrong.

My only hope for the world is in bringing the human mind into contact with divine revelation.