- Elisha Cooke: Is that all the beard you can muster?
- Charles Duquet: It is all that has ever come from neglect.
- Elisha Cooke: Well, it is no beard at all. My beard can sense another man's intentions. It has barbules that poke out into the minds of others.
- Charles Duquet: Mine is a powerful beard, sir.
- Elisha Cooke: It is a sorry beard, protects nothing but weakness and deception.