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….

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

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!.

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….

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..

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

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..

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….

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

No weapons are more potent than brevity and simplicity..

Most prisons have wide gates!.

Florence - the city of tranquillity made manifest..

An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of ….

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

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

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

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

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

A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities..

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….