"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other."

"I have no patience with people who are always complaining about everything."

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

"The older I grow, the more I dislike the cant of all kinds, and especially religious cant."

"It is a most extraordinary, and at the same time a most natural, thing, that a man should be able to look back upon his life and see it as a whole."