“It is not a good idea to spray finest brandy across the room, especially when your lighted cigar is in the way.”

“An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.”

“and you go on toward your ocean, the cigar biting your lips the way love used to.”

“It must be emphasized that as a father, you are always teaching. For good or ill your family learns your ways, your beliefs, your heart, your ideas, your concerns. Your children may or may not choose to follow you, but the example you give is the greatest light you hold before your children, and you are accountable for that light.”

“If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.”

“If she had seen his face when, safe in his own room, he looked at the picture of a severe and rigid young lady, with a good deal of hair, who appeared to be gazing darkly into futurity, it might have thrown some light upon the subject, especially when he turned off the gas, and kissed the picture in the dark.”