“We must have humbug, we all like humbug, we couldn't get on without humbug.”

“In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.”

“What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!”

“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”

“If I don't save her from the hands of that humbug," he said, aloud, as he went to bed, "she is lost. But I shall save her."He put out his lamp and felt a need to insult Erik in the dark. Thrice over, he shouted:"Humbug!...Humbug!...Humbug!”

“Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.”