"Be speedy, for I was born under a thirsty star."

“Nobody but a highlander can go about without his trousers.”

“I haven't seen this chap's boots yet, but I should say from his knock he's a good opinion of himself.”

“Whenever I had spotted a real good thing, my funds would never run to paper and stamps to apply for shares.”

“You see around you the old masters. They were called masters, as you are doubtless aware, because they taught drawing; the epithet old was applied on account of the general leeriness of their dispositions.”

“We will indulge in all those miscellaneous commercial operations, which when conducted on a small scale are called thieving, but a large scale, financing.”

“All apartments are eligible as I ever heard tell of, just as all shopkeepers, barring that publican next door, are respectable.”