What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.

What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.

If I had not married I should not have learned the quick enrichment of sentences that one gets in conversation; had I not been widowed I should not have found the detachment of mind, the leisure for observation necessary to give insight into character, to express and interpret it. Loneliness made me rich - full, as Bacon says.

But this country is a great country and will always rebound.

Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.