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

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

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

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.

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.