I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

The corn law was intended to keep wheat at the price of 80s. the quarter; it is now under 40s. the quarter.

It was in the year 1820, when I was nearly nine years old, that I first went to a regular school.

It is sufficient to say, what everybody knows to be true, that the Irish population is Catholic, and that the Protestants, whether of the Episcopalian or Presbyterian Church, or of both united, are a small minority of the Irish people.

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

The franchise itself gives no real power, unless accompanied by the right on the part of all the possessors of it to elect something like an equal number of representatives.

Training and development: The best development programmes change the way people see themselves