John Boyle O Reilly quotes

" You gave me the key of your heart, my love; then why did you make me knock? Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night -- I changed the lock! " # Caprice # Love # Saints

" The organized charity, scrimped and iced, in the name of a cautious, statistical Christ. " # Charity # Love # Statistics

" How shall I a habit break? " # Habit

" I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land. " # Bohemia # America # Life and Living

" The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove. " # Decisions # Love # Passion

" For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips. " # Kisses and Kissing # Love # Desire

" 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. " # Freedom # Writers and Writing # Virtue

" Though it lash the shallows that line the beach, Afar from the great sea-deeps, There is never a storm whose might can reach Where the vast leviathan sleeps. Like a mighty thought in a mighty mind In the clear cold depths he swims; Whilst above him the pettiest form of his kind With a dash o'er the surface skims. " # Books - Reading # Death and Dying # Courage

" They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore. " # Goals

" Doubt is brother-devil to Despair. " # Devil # Doubt # Love