"I have always been of the opinion that the best thing a man can do is to keep his own counsel."

"I believe that the present system of prison discipline is a failure."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."

"I have known a vast amount of nonsense talked about the dignity of labour. The dignity of labour is a comfortable thing to contemplate, but it is not a comfortable thing to experience."

"I think the English people are a very narrow-minded people."