"He was a man of a ponderous and solemn aspect; a man who might have been a bishop, or a judge, or a prime minister, or anything else that was grave and dignified."

"The universe makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid."

"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

"The poor are always with us, but they are not always with us in the same numbers."

"It is a very remarkable thing, that the very people who are most anxious to get into society are the very people who are least fitted for it."