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

"I am a man who can be very patient, or very impatient, as occasion serves."

"It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and good for a man's heart, that however poor he may be, he always has a thousand friends; and not one of them will desert him."

"I have made it a rule of my life to avoid all unnecessary contact with the world."

"I don't believe in the perfectibility of the human race."

"The American women are certainly not pretty... They are not graceful, they are not elegant, they are not accomplished, they are not intellectual, they are not virtuous, and they are not honest."