Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.