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

"I am a gentleman. I have been a gentleman all my life."

"There are some people who are like a good fire—they warm you up."

"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."

"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."