"It is a most extraordinary thing that I have never been able to get a moment's peace in my life, without having to pay for it."

"The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."

"I am not a great admirer of the English legal system."

"The English are, so far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amusement and do no worse."

"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."