Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

No man has the right to say to his country

Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.

You must show him, by leaving him severely alone.

all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

A great literature is thus chiefly the product of doubting and inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

When any great design thou dost intend, Think on the means, the manner, and the end.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

I never wanted to do political satire because it seems too surface to me.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.