"To learn to read in the school of life, to learn to write in the school of death."

"I am afraid I am more interested in the shape of sentences than in their moral implications."

"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some past day."

"The greatest thing a man can do is to love his country."

"If I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal."