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

"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."

"Civilisation is hooped together, brought. Under a rule, under the semblance of peace. By manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease, Ravening through centur…"

"The world is a spiritual battleground."

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