"I admit the probability of those possibilities."
"As an engineer you must never forget the interdependence of parts: as a successful man you must never overlook the interdependence of everything in nature. Smile at men as if you were overjoyed to see them and they'll give you anything, as long as it's not their own property."
"Hear, hear!"
"Our object in life is to persuade the councillors to dole us out an extra dose of the ratepayers' money."
"I admit the correctness of the conclusion."
"Then let us, with all circumspection, smile on the councillors and their wives and daughters, particularly the daughters."
"Nothing would please me more, provided the daughters reciprocate the smile."
"They'll do that alright, old chap, if you only do it the right way. The most potent force in nature is the love of women; it behoves us as engineers to utilize this force. There is nothing much that a woman in love won't do, and there is even less that she won't make the poor fool, who imagines she is in love with him, do."
"It's supposed to be specially dangerous to run two girls in parallel."
"You may take it as proved that, 'In the same town and on the same side of it, there cannot be two girls in love with the same man, etc.' All the same, the idea of it is rather fascinating." Darwen's eyes sparkled.