When you are lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose to indulge in without impropriety.

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block.

After many unhappy experiments in the direction of an ideal Republic, it was found that what may be described as a Despotism tempered by Dynamite provides, on the whole, the most satisfactory description of ruler - an autocrat who dares not abuse his autocratic power.

When every blessed thing you have is made of silver, or of gold, you long for simple pewter.

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering.

Things are seldom what they seem.

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