"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart."

"The greatest thing in life is to be a fool for Christ's sake."

"I shall write for my own people, whether in love or hate of them matters little, probably I shall not know which it is."

"The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too."