“Well, the English have no family feelings. That is, none of the kind you mean. They have them, and one of them is that relations must cause no expense.”
“You have one family, Charley. For good or bad. You have one family. You can’t trade them in. You can’t lie to them. You can’t run two at once, substituting back and forth.“Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.”
“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose”
“Good manners have much to do with the emotions. To make them ring true, one must feel them, not merely exhibit them.”
“We have not yet begun to fight!" as said by my relative aboard the Bon Homme Richard when the English asked them to surrender as it was about to sink.”