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

"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."

"I am a man of the world, and I know what the world is."

"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."

"The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself."