"Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay."
"To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still."
"Pardon me, you are not engaged to any one. When you do become engaged to some one, I, or your father, should his health permit him, will inform you of the fact. An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant, as the case may be. It is hardly a matter that she could be allowed to arrange for herself."
"I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes."
"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her."
"Good ideas are common - what's uncommon are people who'll work hard enough to bring them about."