"The dead are always about us, invisible but present."

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work."

"No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has s…"

"I believe in magic."

"My own position is that an idealism or spiritualism which denies magic, and evil spirits even, and sneers at magicians and even mediums (the few honest ones) is an academical imposture."