poverty is obsolete and hunger is abolished

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.

My object all sublime I shall achieve in time- To let the punishment fit the crime- The punishment fit the crime.

I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule.

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

There's fish in the sea, no doubt of it, As good as ever came out of it.

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