Elizabeth, girl, I never knew what happiness was till you told me you loved me.
My mother says she would never consent to her son's marrying the daughter of a man who has kept a livery-stable.

I say that I'm done with a family that made its money out of whisky.

My mother's father was a distiller, her grandfather was a distiller, and if there's any shame, it's mine, for by all the standards of decency, a livery-stable is a hundred times more respectable than a warehouse full of whisky.

You made your money honestly, but ours has been wrung out of the poor, the sick, the ragged, the distressed.

The whisky business is a rotten business, Tom, rotten!" "It was whisky that bought an ambassadorship for my mother's brother; it was whisky that paid for the French count my sister married; it was whisky that sent me to college.