"I am not a believer in the wisdom of crowds."

"I grieve to say that I know of no country where the practice of dentistry is so atrocious as in England."

"The law is a ass—a idiot."

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