"Now must we sing and sing the..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd."This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out,"Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.”

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.”

“Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.”

“The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.”

“A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.”

“To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!”

“Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have.”

“You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am”