It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

Warm-hearted! I should think he has to wear asbestos vests!

Back horses or go down to Throgmorton Street and try to take it away from the Rothschilds, and I will applaud you as a shrewd and cautious financier. But to bet at golf is pure gambling.

Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.

Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.