"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."

"It is a very remarkable thing, that the very things which are most necessary are the very things that are most neglected."

"It's a good thing to be rich, and a good thing to be strong, but it is a better thing to be beloved of many friends."

"I have a profound distrust of all forms of religious enthusiasm."

"I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England."