I remember a waiter at an hotel in Holborn who could speak seven languages.

It's an accomplishment very necessary for a Courier or a Queen's Messenger." "You don't mean to say, sir, that you disregard foreign languages ?" "I have said nothing of the kind.

But in my estimation they don't stand in the place of principles, or a profession, or birth, or country.

I fancy there has been some conversation between you about your sister." "Certainly there has." "A young man should be very chary how he speaks to another man, to a stranger, about his sister.

A sister's name should be too sacred for club talk." "Club talk! Good heavens, sir; you don't think that I have spoken of Emily in that way?
There isn't a man in London has a higher respect for his sister than I have for mine.