"The older I grow, the more I dislike the cant of all kinds, and especially religious cant."

"I have no doubt that the mass of the working people of England are as yet, in their own country, an unknown territory to the educated classes."

"I am a believer in Marley’s Ghost."

"The whole world is a great big satisfying thing."

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."