Generally speaking, each of us improves his own business by declining to mind anybody else's.

Home Rule will give England precisely this chance of sticking to her last.

To Ireland it will come with both hands full of new opportunities and new responsibilities.
To realise that the national idea in Ireland arouses an emotion, at once massive, intense, and enduring, is to understand many derivative riddles.

We are all familiar with the complaint that there is in Ireland too much politics and too little business.

Of course there is, and not only too little business but too little literature, too little philosophy, too little social effort, too little fun.