No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.

Things are seldom what they seem.

When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!