"I know enough of the world now, to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything."

"It is a principle of the human mind, that the more we have, the more we want, and the less we have, the less we want."

"I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England."

"He was a good-looking man, and a good-for-nothing man."

"He was a man who, if he had a mind to do a thing, would do it."