- Judge: I have no alternative but to impose the maximum penalty. You will be fined... seven shillings and six pence.
- Dr. Grimstone: Richard Bultitude! I have no words to express the pain and disgust I feel at the heartless way you persist in mimicking a fond and estimable parent!
- Dick Bultitude: This infernal whiffling and sniffling is nothing less than unnatural ina boy of his size!
- Dr. Grimstone: Keffen. Are you crying?
- Keffen: No sir. I think I've caught a cold sir.
- Dr. Grimstone: I'm uncommonly glad to hear it. I should not like to think that you were starting your new life in a spirit of captiousness and rebellion.I'll have no mutineers in my camp, sir! I intend to establish a spirit of trustful happiness and unmurmuring content in my school, if I have to flog every boy in it!