Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.