The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp.

Let the Unions become engines for the working people to right their wrongs. Not benefit societies, or burial clubs. Let the Unions become civilian regiments to fight in the cause of the people.

Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Now you know what hurt it brings to women when men come into the world. Remember, and make it up to your Mama and to all women.

As your father keeps clean his lamp to have good light, so keep clean your spirit.

She has passed information to you. Figures names and facts. You have learnt nothing very much. But you have a splendid memory. It will help you when you start to learn.

You must seek to know thyself.

I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next.

Ballycumber (ba-li-KUM-ber) n. One of the six half-read books lying somewhere in your bed.

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

To win you have to score one more goal than your opponent

The sun never sets on my gallery.

When I was in school I liked math because all the problems had answers. Everything else seemed very subjective.

Perhaps that is because you mistake death for justice, and they are not the same thing at all.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.