If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.