The thing I would most like to see invented is a way of teaching children and grown-ups the difference between right and wrong.

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.

Billing and cooing to me is worse to witness an execution.

I am naturally taciturn, and became a silent and attentive listener.

Irishmen are not reserved, and the company appeared dying to be intimately acquainted.

Never were two people more opposite in sentiment than my companions.

The country is in an extraordinary ferment.