"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 a man of whom it is impossible to say too much or too little."

"There are very few people, I imagine, who have not, at some time or other, been in love with some object or other."

"There are some people who are like a good fire—they warm you up."

"I have a great deal of the child in me, and that is why I love children."