"I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time, and it has made all the difference to my life."

"The law is a ass—a idiot."

"I have no doubt that the mass of the working people of England are as yet, in their own country, an unknown territory to the educated classes."

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

"The English are, so far as I know, the hardest worked people on whom the sun shines. Be content if in their wretched intervals of leisure they read for amusement and do no worse."