"The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on."

"He was a man of the world, in the worst sense of the term."

"Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature."

"I am the most intensely and profusely social of all men, but I must have a quantity of clear, solitary, penetrating, and uncomforting observation."

"I am a most uncompromising enemy of the present system of administering the poor-laws."