Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. The Augustinian doctrine of the damnation of unbaptized infants and the Calvinistic doctrine of reprobation . . . Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.