"The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself."

"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 never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time."

"I am a man of whom it is impossible to say too much or too little."

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