John Boyle O'Reilly
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.Collection: Wisdom
When honor comes to you, be ready to take it; But reach not to seize it before it is near.Collection: Honor
How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stanCollection: Hands
... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road.Collection: Men
Well blest is he who has a dear one dead; A friend he has whose face will never change- A dear communion that will not grow strange; The anchor of a love is death.Collection: Death
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?Collection: Rights
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.Collection: Integrity
Take gifts with a sigh: most men give to be paid.Collection: Men
The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.Collection: Heart
Anonymity is the fame of the future.Collection: Social Media
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.Collection: Judging
The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.Collection: Names
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.Collection: Loyalty
Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.Collection: Life
I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.Collection: Land
For peace do not hope; to be just you must break it. Still work for the minute and not for the year.Collection: Peace
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.Collection: Experience
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.Collection: Mother
Doubt is brother-devil to Despair.Collection: Brother
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.Collection: Flying
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.Collection: Dream
Be silent and safe-silence never betrays you.Collection: Silence