The beautiful are never desolate; But some one alway loves them--God or man. If man abandons, God himself takes them.

The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!

What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.

For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.

Respect is what we owe; love, what we give.

Surely the stars are images of love.

Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art.

Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.

Death, thou art infinite; it is life is little.

Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God; And let each try, by great thoughts and good deeds, To show the most of Heaven he hath in him.

You are pitiful, isolated individuals! You are bankrupts. Your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on – into the dustbin of history!

Never base your destiny on things you cannot control and have no power to change.

If you spend your life thinking, "I wonder if today is when it ends," you're going to miss out on everything wonderful.

I'm only interested in Libya if we keep the oil. If we don't keep the oil, I'm not interested.

Do we want to emulate China in the way that China emulates the West? I think, for most Americans, the answer to that question would be no.

Great strokes make not sweete musick.

It all begins and ends in the same place, doesn't it? Conor and me in Ballyutogue. We all come home eventually.

When you get married you forget about kissing other women.

If you see Two in One - I only see One in Two

We look down on our scientists if they engage in outside consultation. We implicitly promote the ivory tower.