17 Quotes by George W. Russell

You can’t evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

When steam first began to pump and wheels go round at so many revolutions per minute, what are called business habits were intended to make the life of man run in harmony with the steam engine, and his movement rival the train in punctuality.

No leader, however great a personality he may be, is as important to a people as their own intellectual development.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

Any relations in a social order will endure, if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy which qualifies life for immortality.