"I am a man who has always been very much in the habit of doing what he likes, and of not doing what he doesn't like."

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

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

"I have a great objection to all forms of cant and hypocrisy."

"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."