"I have tried to be a good boy, and I have done my best."

"I see no good reason why the views given in this volume should shock the religious feelings of any one."

"I have always maintained that, in this country, a man can do whatever he likes, provided he is a gentleman."

"It is a cursed evil to any man to become so absorbed in any one subject as I am in mine."

"I have been much struck by the fact that the more I have read about the subject, the less I have understood it."