All bayonets are bad.

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

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.

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.

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

A policeman's lot is not a happy one