You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.