He'll come tae me.

He'll be wanting tae tak' me to dinner, he'll ask me and the wife to ride in a motor, he'll do ought that comes into his head-- and a' that he may be able to look to me for a free ticket for the playhoose! He'll be seekin' to spend ten times what the tickets wad cost him that he may get them for nothing.

I canna understand that in a man wi' sense enough to mak' a success in business, yet every actor kens weel that it's sae.
What many a man calls meanness I call prudence.

I think if we talked more o' that virtue, prudence, and less o' that vice, meanness--for I'm as sure as you can be that meanness is a vice--we'd come nearer to the truth o' this matter, mayhap.
Tak' a savage, noo.

He'll no be mean or savin': He'll no be prudent, either.