The business of the poet and the novelist is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Back in time it seemed that having a sister were a tragedy. Instead it is one of the best presents my parents could have ever given me.

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

Man is free, but his freedom ceases when he has no faith in it[.

Only the Irish working class remains as the incorruptible inheritors of the fight for freedom in Ireland.

When a king creates an office, Providence creates immediately a fool to buy it.

There will be people the old flesh will rise up and wonder why God blessed them. But no one will ever be envious on God's blessings on their children.

All great actions return to God, from whom they are derived.

I am responsible. Yes, I have chosen to be single.

Jesus is the one who brings God to us and us to God.

The great leader attracts to himself men of kindred character, drawing them towards him as the loadstone draws iron.