"I am not a believer in the divine right of kings."

"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."

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

"I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation."

"I have a strong dislike for all forms of political humbug."