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"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
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"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
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"Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life."
Life
"The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind."
Time
"A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again."
Experience
"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."
People
"A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it."
Music
"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."
Man
"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."
Man
"It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms."
Poetry
"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."
Writing
"There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting."
Soothing
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