“You'll have a national Philosopher's strike on your hands!”
“Love comes like lightning, and disappears the same way. If you are lucky, it strikes you right. If not, you'll spend your life yearning for a man you can't have.”
“You'll be so busy with Bridge and what's-his-name that you'll forget all about your English mate, St. Clair.""Ha! So you are English!" I poke him in the stomach.He grabs my hand and we wrestle, laughing. "I claim... no... nationality.”
“Ho! now you strike like the blind man;t'was the boy that stole your meat,and you'll beat the post.”
“His hands struck her any hour of the day, like hands that strike a clock, whether early, whether late; they strike, they strike.”
“My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.”