"I am a man who can be very patient, or very impatient, as occasion serves."

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humour."

"Every man has some good in him, and every man has some bad in him."

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

"I have a profound distrust of all forms of religious enthusiasm."