"I think that the English people are, on the whole, a very dull people."

"It is a very remarkable thing, that the very things which are most necessary are the very things that are most neglected."

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

"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."

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery."