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

"It is a most extraordinary thing that I have never been able to get a moment's peace in my life, without having to pay for it."

"The English people are, on the whole, a very good-natured people, but they are also a very obstinate people."

"I am a man who has lived a good deal in the world, and I have seen a good deal of it."

"He was a man who had seen the world, and knew what was what."