"I have a strong impression that the present system of voting is a very bad one."

"I have no faith in the wisdom of any government that is not based upon the popular will."

"I have always been of the opinion that the best way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"It is a most extraordinary thing that I have never been able to get a moment's peace in my life, without having to pay for it."

"There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated."