"The whole world is a great big satisfying thing."

"I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance, any day in the week, if…"

"It is a most extraordinary thing that I have not been able to get a moment's peace since I came to this house."

"It is a most remarkable thing that the most important events of our lives are often brought about by the most trivial causes."

"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."