"I am a man who has lived a good deal in the world, and I have seen a good deal of it."

"I am not a great admirer of the British Constitution."

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene l…"

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"I am not a great admirer of the English aristocracy."