No caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.

Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.

You are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?

As headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

P.S. No more public scatology.

On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, ins…

Handle gut und anstandig, weniger anderen zu gefallen, eher um deine eigene Achtung nicht zu verscherzen.