"He was a man who had seen the world, and knew what was what."

"The English are, I am afraid, a little too much given to a kind of national conceit."

"It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"My advice is, never do to-morrow what you can do to-day. Procrastination is the thief of time."

"I think the English people are a very dull and uninteresting people."