When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.
There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Childhood has no necessary connection with age.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Patience has tender feet.
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.
Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
Humility is pride in God.
