"I have always been of the opinion that it is better to be happy than to be rich, and that it is better to be good than to be great."

"I have been so beset, and so worried, and so torn by the anxiety of this new book, that I have been made ill by it."

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

"I am not a believer in the infallibility of any human institution."

"I think the English people are a very narrow-minded people."