"I have a great contempt for all forms of class distinction."

"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."

"I am a man of whom it is impossible to say too much or too little."

"Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts."

"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."