After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.

We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire; For we can no more than smoke unto the flame return If our thought has changed to dream, our will unto desire, As smoke we vanish though the fire may burn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.