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

"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."

"The English are, so far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amusement and do no worse."

"I have always been a great admirer of the wisdom of the ancients, and I have always been of the opinion that there is a great deal to be learned from them."

"I have a great contempt for all forms of political corruption."