"It is a principle of the human mind, that the more we have, the more we want."

"I know enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it so bad as to be worth the trouble of speaking ill of."

"I am a gentleman. I have been a gentleman all my life."

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

"I think that the English people are, on the whole, a very dull people."