"I have known a good many people who have had their heads cut off, and I never knew one who didn't deserve it."

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

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

"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."

"There is a great deal of humbug in the world, and a good deal of it in England."