To give! To give without hope of recompense, without question, without fear! That was the message of life..

Light love is desire of pleasure; great love is fear of being alone..

It is sacrilege to attempt analysis of birth or love or death. Death and birth, the mysteries! Love, the revelation!.

The most splendid moment of an adventure is not always the moment of fulfilment, not even the moment of conception, but the moment of first accomplis….

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest..

in this curious world there are certain beings to whom it is given to say of all things with naïve faith, not 'I shall seek,' but 'I shall find..

Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverl….

The saddest human experience is to view alone the scenes one has viewed through other eyes - to walk solitary where one has walked in company - to ha….

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest..

Most prisons have wide gates!.

A good horse is the best company in the world..

Nobody is such an individualist as the man who advocates equality..

We Irish are born dreamers; sometimes we never wake up at all, and then we're counted failures..

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity..

Cynicism ... is the trade-mark of failure..

No first step can be really great; it must of necessity possess more of prophecy than of achievement; nevertheless it is by the first step that a man….

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!.

by the mercy of God all the ideas of youth are reversible!.

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities..

Of all the ills that circumstance forces upon man, separation from a beloved object is, perhaps, the most salutary. Separation is the crucible wherei….

Enthusiasm is ever a gracious, pardonable thing, because in its essentials are youth and zeal and all high, white-hot qualities whose roots strike no….