"Your Church has in this matter been far more thorough than the Protestant. It has never denied Ars Magica, though it has denounced it'."

"In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter."

"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry."

"I think I am a little mad."

"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."